Sadly, there is no function for this. It was requested at a fairly late
stage in the game but no-one volunteered to do to the specification work,
especially as there was a good chance it wouldn't get in since there's a lot
of resistance to incremental growth in the function library.

An obvious candidate for an extension function, but I've promised to do some
decorating next weekend.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Roth [mailto:roth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 01 November 2005 22:44
> To: XSL List
> Subject:  [XPath20] Decoding URIs
> 
> Hi,
> 
> is there a method in XPath 2.0 - Functions to decode a URL (resp. its
> fragment identifier part)? Or is this done by some way of casting?
> 
> I see there is fn:encode-for-uri, but I cannot find its counterpart.
> 
> Suppose I have this source XML:
> 
> 
>   <elem uri="cust:/dir/a%20value" />
> 
> 
> How can I set a variable x to hold the string "cust:/dir/a value"?
> 
> 
> Regards, Christian.