Re: [xslt] filenames containing spaces in xslt param

[Vinod Patil <joy vinod gmail com>]

Dear Friends,

 

Thank you for your immediate response.

 

I should have explained issue in more detail.

 

The (spaces in filename) issue arise when I pass parameters to xslt using libxslt's xsltApplyStylesheet function. And, the issue is, the document function then fails to load this file.

 

If I directly hardcode the file path in XSLT then it works fine.

for e.g.

<xsl:variable name="path" select="'C:/file with space in name.xml'" />
<xsl:copy-of select="document($path)"/> , note, no %20 in file name. I am using MS-Visual studio XSLT debugger to degub this XSLT.

Now, if I pass same path 'C:/file with space in name.xml' from libxslt's xsltApplyStylesheet function then it doesn't work.

 

But, now I have changed my code to replace all spaces in file name by %20, before passing it to xsltApplyStylesheet function. And it works fine now. The issue is fixed. Thanks to Chuck Jungmann :) . You gave me the direction.

 

Thanks all.

 

 

 

 

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Nick Wellnhofer <wellnhofer aevum de> wrote:

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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