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c-siems

Jul 11, 2013 @ 08:40 PM

Re: http://help.hannonhill.com/discussions/xslt-formats/26-java-url-encoder-allowed-in-cms

I was able to put java.net.URLEncoder into the XSLT, but spaces in URLs are transcribed to pluses (+).

I've search around and I'm not finding much help. One suggestion was using a toURL function on it, but my attempts failed. Another suggestion was to use java.net.URI with toURI and toURL, but I couldn't get that to either.

Is there another way to encode URLs - specifically, encode/transcribe illegal characters to legal characters?

• block.xml.txt 64.2 KB
• format.xsl.txt 4.21 KB

1. 1 Posted by Ryan Griffith on Jul 11, 2013 @ 09:02 PM

   

   Hi,

   Curious, but something you could try is using the JavaScript encodeURIComponent() method. Because you are appending the protocol and host information, this should theoretically work.

   When you have a moment, give the following Xalan component a try and let me know if this produces the expected result:

   <xalan:component functions="uriEncode" prefix="hh2">
       <xalan:script lang="javascript"><![CDATA[
           function uriEncode(str) {
               return encodeURIComponent(str);
           }
       ]]></xalan:script>
   </xalan:component>
   

   Note: because you already have the hh prefix defined, I used hh2. Also, two prefixes cannot use the same URL, so I used xmlns:hh2="http://www.tamu.edu/XSL/Functions" during testing (the URL doesn't really matter).

   Please let me know if you have any questions.

   Thanks!

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2. 2 Posted by Ryan Griffith on Jul 17, 2013 @ 07:10 PM

   

   Hi,

   Just wanted to follow up to see if you had a chance to view my recent comment.

   Please let us know if you have any questions.

   Thanks.

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3. 3 Posted by c-siems on Jul 18, 2013 @ 02:01 PM

   

   That did it. Thanks Ryan. This seems like a lot of work to escape 1 or 2 URI - especially when our contributors know better than to put spaces in system names.

   For those of you wanting to know how, in the format.xsl.txt file above, I changed the line

       <xsl:variable name="feedlink" select="encoder:encode(substring(string(path),15),'UTF-8')" xmlns:encoder="xalan://java.net.URLEncoder"/>
   

   to

       <xsl:variable name="feedlink" select="hh2:uriEncode(substring(string(path),15),'UTF-8')" xmlns:encoder="xalan://java.net.URLEncoder"/>
   

   I also changed the <guid> tag to match the (escaped) <link> tag. This makes the RSS pass the validator.

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4. 4 Posted by Ryan Griffith on Jul 18, 2013 @ 03:51 PM

   

   Thank you for following up, I am glad to hear that did the trick.

   This seems like a lot of work to escape 1 or 2 URI - especially when our contributors know better than to put spaces in system names.

   Have you looked into maybe using one of the Asset Factory plugins to generate a system name without spaces? The "Friendly" plugins convert spaces to dashes.

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5. Ryan Griffith closed this discussion on Jul 26, 2013 @ 02:01 PM.