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Asked: 2026-05-23T04:26:56+00:00

First I have to state that I touched XSLT today for the first time

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First I have to state that I touched XSLT today for the first time because a friend asked me for help.

We’re trying to generate a link for GMaps. Everything works as long as there is no space in the variable we’re using. Here’s the code.

<xslt:template name="buildmaps">
    <xslt:param name="linkstart"/>
    <xslt:param name="link_target_street"/>
    <xslt:param name="link_target_postalcode"/>
    <xslt:param name="link_target_city"/>
    <xslt:param name="linktext"/>
    <xslt:param name="target"/>
        <xslt:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;a href=http://maps.google.de/maps?hl=de&amp;saddr=Hauptstr.%2057%2044789%20Bochum</xslt:text>
        <xslt:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;daddr=</xslt:text>
        <xslt:value-of select="$link_target_street"/>
        <xslt:text disable-output-escaping="yes">%20</xslt:text>
        <xslt:value-of select="$link_target_postalcode"/>
        <xslt:text disable-output-escaping="yes">%20</xslt:text>
        <xslt:value-of select="$link_target_city"/>         
        <xslt:text disable-output-escaping="yes">" target="</xslt:text>
        <xslt:value-of select="$target"/>
        <xslt:text disable-output-escaping="yes">"&gt;</xslt:text>
        <xslt:value-of select="$linktext"/>
        <xslt:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;/a&gt;</xslt:text>
</xslt:template>

The problem occurs with the $link_target_street variable. Which looks like “Bahnhofstr. 9”. We get our link allright like “http://maps.google.de/…daddr=Hauptstr.&#8221;. So everything stops at the blank between Hauptstr. and 9.

Is there something I can do about it?

Thx in advance.

Update:

Now I know I’m using XSLT 1.0. So no replace for me 🙁

Now a bit about the output:

It should look like this:

<a href="http://maps.google.de/maps?hl=de&amp;saddr=Hauptstr.%2057%2044789%20Bochum&amp;daddr=Mainstreet%2023%2012345%20Bochum" target="_blank">

The problem lies in the street name. There I get:

... &amp;daddr=Mainstreet 23%2012345%20Bochum" ...

but I need

... &amp;daddr=Mainstreet%2023%2012345%20Bochum" ...

At this point I’m not sure if XSLT really stops at this blank or if the Url is just too broken to get handled properly. Either way if I could change the blank to ‘%20’ everything would be fine. I think probably the links from Tomalak will help me out.

Unfortunately I’m at home now and have to set up a test environment myself but we found the debug option so I hope that will fasten the process.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Looks like you are shooting yourself in the foot.

    <xslt:template name="buildmaps">
    <xslt:param name="linkstart"/>
    <xslt:param name="link_target_street"/>
    <xslt:param name="link_target_postalcode"/>
    <xslt:param name="link_target_city"/>
    <xslt:param name="linktext"/>
    <xslt:param name="target"/>
    <a href="http://maps.google.de/maps?hl=de&amp;saddr=Hauptstr.%2057%2044789%20Bochum&amp;daddr={$link_target_street}%20{$link_target_postalcode}%20{$link_target_city}" target="{$target}">
        <xslt:value-of select="$linktext"/>
    </a>
</xslt:template>

    Note that there are Attribute Value Templates.

    Further, XSLT has no built-in function to do URL-encoding. However, that is what you need to do when you want to place arbitrary values into a URL.

    There are a few methods to make a URL-encoding function available to XSLT, it depends on your XSLT processor which one would work for you.

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