Non-Ascii characters in a URI should be escaped using the %HH convention,
rather than using XML escaping.

XSLT 2.0 provides a function escape-uri() to achieve this.

In 1.0, it happens automatically when you use the HTML serialization method
if the URI appears in an attribute such as <a href="..."> that is known to
require a URI as its value.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gabriel K. [mailto:gabriel.klappenbach@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 03 March 2005 17:11
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  escaping/entities on the fly?
>
> I'm creating an URL (a mailto: link) that uses characters not
> allowed,
> encoded in ISO-8859-1. The characters are for instance e d v.
> So when when you click the mailto link and a new mail is
> created, these
> characters in the subject line are not readable.
>
> Is there a function or some other way to convert for instance
> the character
> "e" to  &aring; or it's entity number  &#229; on the fly?
> I don't want to have these (entities) in the XML file.
>
> /Gabriel