If I understand correctly you first need to serialize the XML and then to
%HH-encode it.

For the second operation you can use the XPath 2.0 iri-to-uri() function.
There's no standard way of doing the first operation. Saxon has an extension
function saxon:serialize() however.

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

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Stewart [mailto:the.stewarg@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 30 October 2005 18:06
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Converting XML to an Escacped URL
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I was attempting to convert an XML document into an escaped URL to
> send over a HTTP get and couldn't find a very good solution and was
> wondering if anyone has designed or had any thoughts to the design of
> a stylesheet that could do this. I don't mind if I use version 1.0 or
> 2.0. I figured that a character map might be the answer for any spaces
> but I'm still not certain how I can change tags into escaped
> characters unless there is a good way to get a nodeset as a string
> then use escape-uri on it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gary