Re: [xslt] Possible parsing bug?

[Michael Ludwig <mlu as-guides com>]

Dave Connet schrieb:
> This works using IE (using 7 and just opening the xml in the browser)
> and xalan. However, using xsltproc (and, internally, in our code with
> making the actual api calls), this produces a mangled 'src' attribute.
>
> Using xalan:
>    <img width="415" height="10" src="C:\Test
> Dir\images/myImage.gif">Id1<br>

> Using xsltproc:
>    <img width="415" height="10"
> src="C:%5CTest%20Dir%5Cimages/myImage.gif">Id1<br>

Looks like the HTML serialization method chosen via xsl:output
automatically escapes the @src attribute for use in URLs. Same
story for the @href attribute.

If you change your xsl:output/@method or the attribute name, no such
escaping is done. Of course, neither option is likely to help you.

I think this could be considered a bug in LibXML2.

> Are there any work arounds to this? (I'm not the xsl programmer - I
> wrote the C++ code to do the transformations)

In that case, maybe propose a patch for LibXML2 ... :-) The relevant
code seems to be here:

    ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.2.tar.gz

    libxml2-2.7.2/HTMLtree.c

    static void htmlAttrDumpOutput( ... )

Michael Ludwig