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Our XSL is set up so that when search results come up a user can click on an icon to go to that exact document in our library. The problem is when a document has an ampersand (&) in the metadata column "Title" and the icon is clicked the document isn't found in the library. Just as a side note the document does show up in the search results. A sample of the icon's URL is below.

If I replace the ampersand (&) in the URL with %26 the document is found in the library.

My question: What can I do to the URL to replace the ampersand (&) with "%26" for the Title metadata column only (This is my preferred method)? Or will I have to go through the 300+ documents with ampersand (&) in the titles and replace with the word "and" instead (help with a PowerShell command?).

This is what the URL of the icon used to go to the document in the library looks like before I reaplace the & with %26

http://myportal.domain.com/My%20Library/Forms/AllItems.aspx?InitialTabId=Ribbon.Document&VisibilityContext=WSSTabPersistence&View={FF43BG1F-4F18-4040-9C52-G49G1GGE9F2Q}&FilterField1=Title&FilterValue1=Care Management Solution Features & Benefits video

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Store the URL as a variable in XSL and then show the output with disabling output escaping.

<xsl:variable name="test" select="http://www.mysite.com/mypage.aspx?param1=1&amp;param2=2" />

<xsl:value-of select="$test" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
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I'm not that familiar with XSL is this correct? <xsl:variable name="titleamp" select="http://myportal.domain.com/My%20Library/Forms/AllItems.aspx?InitialTabId‌​=Ribbon.Document&VisibilityContext=WSSTabPersistence&View={FF43BG1F-4F18-4040-9C5‌​2-G49G1GGE9F2Q}&FilterField1=Title&FilterValue1=Care Management Solution Features & Benefits video " /> <xsl:value-of select="$test" disable-output-escaping="yes" /> Will adding this variable do anything to the ampersands (&) in all of the other places in my sample? – SMFH Jun 29 '12 at 20:23
This should do the trick, maybe you can encounter some problems with the space ( ' ' ). But you should first try this one. Good luck – BenCes Jul 2 '12 at 6:39
Thank you very much BenCes. I will give this a try once I set up a test environment. – SMFH Jul 2 '12 at 16:38
Don't forget to mark this as an answer – BenCes Jul 6 '12 at 7:10
Did this work out for you? Mark this as an answer please. – BenCes Jul 25 '12 at 15:02

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