XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference, 4th Edition (580 page)
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Authors: Michael Kay
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. Note that this includes the space character, which will be encoded as %20.
If a%character occurs in the input string, it will
not
be escaped as%25.
Examples
| Expression | Result |
| iri-to-uri(“simple.xml”) | “simple.xml” |
| iri-to-uri(“http://w3.org/simple.xml”) | “http://w3.org/simple.xml” |
| iri-to-uri(“my doc.xml”) | “my%20doc.xml” |
| iri-to-uri(“Grüße.html”) | “Gr%C3%BC%C3%9Fe.html” |
| iri-to-uri(“100% Java.html”) | “100%%20Java.html” |
Usage
Although IRIs (Internationalized Resource Identifiers) are not very often mentioned, an increasing number of interfaces and protocols actually accept them even though they may still use the term URI. Technically, a URI does not allow non-ASCII characters. This function allows you to bridge from an environment where IRIs are allowed (whether officially or unofficially) to a world where they are not recognized.
The handling of percent signs can cause problems, because two different IRIs, for exampleMy DocumentsandMy%20Documents, will be converted to the same URI, which means that the conversion cannot be accurately reversed. If you know that any percent signs in the input string genuinely represent a percent character rather than signalling an escape sequence, then it is a good idea to convert them to%25before calling this function. This can be done by callingreplace($in, ‘%’, ‘%25’).