>>>>> "Sylvain" == Sylvain Hellegouarch <sh@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Sylvain> Hello there, Forgive me my dullness but is this something
    Sylvain> that is "fixed" with XSLT 2 ? I came across the same
    Sylvain> issue recently and I still haven't found a good solution.

there are XPath 2.0 functions for this sort of thing:

encode-for-uri
iri-to-uri
escape-html-uri

It's the first one that's wanted here, I think

encode-for-uri ($m) should do the trick.
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire