Strange XSLT Behvavior with Umlaut

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I have a very strange behavior when I got mutations in a node in xml when I try to parse it with an XSLT.

So we now assume that CustomerName has the Value 'MÖP'.

In this case, the resulting HTML 'a' tag would have a href to 'M%C3%B6P'

XML

<a href="{CustomerName}">
    <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="CustomerName"/>
</a>

In this case, the resulting HTML 'div' tag would have an id 'MÖP'

XML

<div style="display:none">
    <xsl:attribute name="id"><xsl:value-of select="CustomerName"/></xsl:attribute>
</div>

It seems like the attribute href in the a tag has something to do with it.

My question is, why is it like that ? An what can i do that in both cases i got the same output ?

Greetz

Posted 27-Dec-11 22:07pm

ok3n0b1

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ok3n0b1 · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-28T00:56:00

Somebody answered it in another forum. Here is the solution.

The XSLT processor is doing you a favour by escaping the URL value in the href attribute of the HTML link element. This is by design, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization/#HTML_ESCAPE-URI-ATTRIBUTES. If you really don't want that and you use an XSLT 2.0 processor then you can use

HTML

<xsl:ouput method="html" escape-uri-attributes="no" xmlns:xsl="#unknown" />

in your stylesheet.

The problem developing under .net is that it don't supports XSLT2.0.
You have to use a third party XSLTProcessor like Saxon.net