Re: XSLT/XPATH problem, possible bug

> My reading of <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#dt-chardata> is that you
> do not need to escape the ampersand '&' in a processing instruction:
>
> "The ampersand character (&) and the left angle bracket (<) MUST NOT
> appear in their literal form, _except_ when used as markup delimiters,
> or within a comment, a processing instruction, or a CDATA section."
>
> So you would simply need to write your xml-stylesheet processing
> instruction with unescaped ampersands (e.g.
>   &filter=Rock
> ) and all is fine, Mozilla will then make the proper URL request and
> your PHP script will have the proper $_GET variables.
>
> That is what the XML specification gives.

Aha, so strictly speaking it is not a bug. However it would make this a 
great deal easier if encoded ampersands were allowed here too (in terms of 
workflow).

Thanks for clearing this up,

Regards,

 Michael