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Asked: 2026-05-26T06:38:19+00:00

I have a funny problem with presenting links in Chrome using XSL: every link

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I have a funny problem with presenting links in Chrome using XSL: every link concatenated with the HEX symbol “%0A”.
so if the link is “www.google.com”, it will be presented as “www.google.com%0A”.
this problem only occurs in google chrome – Internet Explorer and FireFox present links correctly.
so my question is: how do I prevent google chrome from messing with the links?
here is a sample of the XML file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="builtMathCSStatisticsXML.xsl"?>
<channel>
<item>
<title>algrbra
</title>
<type>class notes
</type>
<staff>Noga Alon
</staff>
<semester>
</semester>
<year>2011
</year>
<donor>anonymous
</donor>
<link>https://skydrive.live.com/self.aspx?path=%2f%d7%9e%d7%aa%d7%9e%d7%98%d7%99%d7%a7%d7%94%2f%d7%90%d7%9c%d7%92%d7%91%d7%a8%d7%94%20%d7%911.%d7%a9%d7%99%d7%a2%d7%95%d7%a8%d7%99%d7%9d%20%d7%95%d7%aa%d7%a8%d7%92%d7%99%d7%9c%d7%99%d7%9d.%d7%a0%d7%95%d7%92%d7%94%20%d7%90%d7%9c%d7%95%d7%9f%5e.%d7%aa%d7%a9%d7%a1%5e4%5e4%d7%96%20-%20%d7%a8%d7%95%d7%a2%d7%99%20%d7%a7%d7%9c%d7%99%d7%99%d7%9f.pdf&amp;cid=1f8a5680599afff9
</link>
</item>
...
</channel>

and here is the xsl file:

<?xml version="1.0"?
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
  <html>
  <head>
  <script src="sorttable.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body dir="rtl">
    <h2>Math CS and Statistics</h2>
    <table class="sortable">
    <thead>
      <tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
        <th>course</th>
        <th>type</th>
        <th>proffesor</th>
        <th>semster</th>
        <th>year</th>
        <th>donors</th>
        <th>links</th>
      </tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
      <xsl:for-each select="channel/item">
      <xsl:sort select="title" />
      <tr onMouseOver="this.bgColor='yellow';" onMouseOut="this.bgColor='white';">
        <td><xsl:value-of select="title"/></td>
        <td><xsl:value-of select="type"/></td>
        <td><xsl:value-of select="staff"/></td>
        <td><xsl:value-of select="semester"/></td>
        <td><xsl:value-of select="year"/></td>
        <td><xsl:value-of select="donor"/></td>
        <td>
    <a target="_blank"><xsl:attribute name="href">
         <xsl:value-of select="link"/>
        </xsl:attribute>link</a>
        </td>
      </tr>
      </xsl:for-each>
      </tbody>
    </table>
  </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

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  1. Editorial Team

    This behavior is according to the XSLT 1.0 Spec, and the explanation is rather tricky:

    NOTE:When an xsl:attribute contains a text node with a newline, then the XML output must contain a character reference. For example, 

    <xsl:attribute name="a">x
y</xsl:attribute>

    will result in the output 

    a="x&#xA;y"

    (or with any equivalent character reference). The XML output cannot be

    a="x
y"

    This is because XML 1.0 requires newline characters in attribute
    values to be normalized into spaces but requires character references
    to newline characters not to be normalized. The attribute values in
    the data model represent the attribute value after normalization. If a
    newline occurring in an attribute value in the tree were output as a
    newline character rather than as character reference, then the
    attribute value in the tree created by reparsing the XML would contain
    a space not a newline, which would mean that the tree had not been
    output correctly.

    So, if you really don’t want the character entity, write:

    <link>string</link>

    and not:

    <link>string
</link>

    Alternatively, use:

    <xsl:attribute name="href">
 <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(link)"/>
</xsl:attribute>

    However, be aware that this will replace any group of non-leading or non-trailing whitespace characters with only a single space.

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