Re: [xslt] filenames containing spaces in xslt param

[Nick Wellnhofer <wellnhofer aevum de>]

Viktor Štujber wrote:
> <xsl:variable name="path" select="'file%20with%20space%20in%20name.xml'" />
> <xsl:copy-of select="document($path)"/>
> 
> Works... however, I thought string literals could contain spaces...
> why do spaces have to be escaped this way? I'm curious to know.

Because the argument of the document function is a URI, not a filename.

Nick


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