How to display Special characteres in xslt href attribute-CodePudding

i want to display a link in xslt table that contient frensh special charactres: the link is dynamic composed from : https://website.com/sites/the_name_of_attachment_in_xml

the xslt link:

<a><xsl:attribute name="href">https://website.com/sites/<xsl:value-of select="Attachments" disable-output-escaping="yes"/></xsl:attribute>
 <xsl:value-of select="Attachments" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
</a>

the html result is:

<a href="https://website.com/sites/ExampleName.pdf">ExampleName.pdf</a>

the issue is when the introduced name contient special charactere for example : présentation, the link will be:

<a href="https://website.com/sites/Pr&amp;#233;sentation.pdf">Présentation.pdf</a>

the "é" charactere in the link is replaced by "&#233;"

i used disable-output-escaping="yes to display correct charactere it worked just for <xsl:value-of select="Attachments" disable-output-escaping="yes"/> but didn't work in href attribute, i see other solution that tell to change in xslt code the

<xsl:output method="html" /> to <xsl:output method="xhtml" /> , but it didn't work form me i get error.

the result i want is:

<a href="https://website.com/sites/Présentation.pdf">Présentation.pdf</a>

How can i display the correcte link with special charactere using xslt?

this is xslt code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
    <xsl:output method="html" />
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <table id="tableRepeat" border="1" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:black;font-size:100%;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
            <thead>
                <tr>
                    <td>Attachments</td>
                </tr>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
                <xsl:for-each select="//Items/Item">
                    <tr>
                        <td>
                        <!-- this is how i display my link  -->    
                        <a>
                        <xsl:attribute name="href">https://website.com/sites/<xsl:value-of select="Attachments" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
                        </xsl:attribute>
                        <xsl:value-of select="Attachments" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
                        </a>
                        <!-- end: this is how i display my link  -->
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </xsl:for-each>
            </tbody>
        </table>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

CodePudding user response：

This is because you are producing HTML output. There are serialization rules for the @href.

If you remove the disable-output-escaping="yes" and allow it to serialize, it produces:

<a href="https://website.com/sites/Présentation.pdf">Présentation.pdf</a>

That's a URLEncoded value, that if you decode, produces: https://website.com/sites/Présentation.pdf.

Browsers know how to read it. Why are you concerned with how the value is serialized in the HTML source?

CodePudding user response：

because i didn't get the right url, it shows me page not found with this

equestUrl=https://website.com/sites/training/Lists/.../pr&

pr& it stop here

and when i inspecte i got this: