Invoking static Java method from XSLT stylesheet

[gweinstock]

Hi,
We need to URL encode an item in our xsl style sheet used with the Texis search appliance. I have heard that

"If your XSLT processor is Java based, it probably has a namespace reserved for invoking static methods in arbitrary classes in your classpath, and this would
work:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0"
xmlns:url="http://whatever/java/java.net.URLEncoder"
exclude-result-prefixes="url">"

Is there a namespace I can use in our custom XSL in order to call the java.net.URLEncoder from the XSLT? I tried a few things, such as

xmlns:java="java"
.
.
.
<xsl:value-of select="java:net.URLEncoder.encode(.)"/>

but to no avail.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Gabriel Weinstock

[John]

It is not a Java based processor. What are you trying to encode? The variables which should need to be should already be URL encoded.

[gweinstock]

Hi,
We need to URL encode an item in our xsl style sheet used with the Texis search appliance. I have heard that

"If your XSLT processor is Java based, it probably has a namespace reserved for invoking static methods in arbitrary classes in your classpath, and this would
work:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0"
xmlns:url="http://whatever/java/java.net.URLEncoder"
exclude-result-prefixes="url">"

Is there a namespace I can use in our custom XSL in order to call the java.net.URLEncoder from the XSLT? I tried a few things, such as

xmlns:java="java"
.
.
.
<xsl:value-of select="java:net.URLEncoder.encode(.)"/>

but to no avail.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Gabriel Weinstock

[gweinstock]

we're trying to encode the query string, and append it back on to the results URL.

However, within the XML, the query string appears to be unencoded.

Gabe

[jason112]

It's possible to extract the encoded query from a URL in another field. This essentially grabs the text
between "query=" and the next &.

<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(substring-after(UrlSimilar,'query='),'&')"/>