escape-uri

escape-uri

The escape-uri() function applies the URI escaping conventions defined in RFC 2396 to an input string. For example, «escape-uri("my document.xml", true()) » returns the string «my%20document.xml ».

Argument	Data Type	Meaning
value	xs:string	The input string, to which URI escaping is to be applied
escape-reserved	xs:boolean	Set to true if characters with a reserved meaning in URIs (for example «/ » and «# ») are to be escaped
Result	xs:string	The URI in its escaped form, as a string.