A question about XML Tags

[Jony Joe]

Dear All;
I am a biginner in XML. Currently I am developing a service for CISCO IP
Phone using ASP.Net. The CISCO IP Phone service has to be developed using
XML Tags. For examlpe the CISCO IP Phone Input takes the following form

<CiscoIPPhoneInput>
<Title>Directory title goes here</Title>
<Prompt>Prompt text goes here</Prompt>
<URL>The target URL for the completed input goes here</URL>
<InputItem>
<DisplayName>Name of the input field to display </DisplayName>
<QueryStringParam>TheURLqueryparameter</QueryStringParam>
<InputFlags> </InputFlags>
<DefaultValue>Value</DefaultValue>
</InputItem>
</CiscoIPPhoneInput>

The problem is that the tag QueryStringParam , (which takes the input from
the user and stores it in the "TheURLqueryparameter" which is a parameter
that is appended to the URL in the URL tag), If contained space, the
application doesn't respond. So I don't know if proper standard XML tag
which permits a space is available to habdle this case or not. If I used any
other characters except the sapce, it will work well without any error .

So my concern is this problem releates to XML or not?
I hope that any can help me
Best Regards;
Jony

[Jesse Hager]

Hi Jony,

It is possible that the IP Phone is not correctly URL Encoding the query
parameter causing the web server to become confused. Look in your web
server logs to see if the query string is truncated at a position where
a space would be in the name. (This assumes you have query string
logging turned on)

You may have to URL encode the contents of that field yourself, for
spaces you can try replacing them with '%20' (without the quotes). Most
platforms have a URL encoding function avaliable that will do this as
well. For .Net it is Server.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode()

So:
<QueryStringParam>name with spaces</QueryStringParam>
Could be translated to:
<QueryStringParam>name%20with%20spaces</QueryStringParam>

For more information, see:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_ref_urlencode.asp

--
Jesse Hager

[Jesse Hager]

Hi Jony,

It is possible that the IP Phone is not correctly URL Encoding the query
parameter causing the web server to become confused. Look in your web
server logs to see if the query string is truncated at a position where
a space would be in the name. (This assumes you have query string
logging turned on)

You may have to URL encode the contents of that field yourself, for
spaces you can try replacing them with '%20' (without the quotes). Most
platforms have a URL encoding function avaliable that will do this as
well. For .Net it is Server.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode()

So:
<QueryStringParam>name with spaces</QueryStringParam>
Could be translated to:
<QueryStringParam>name%20with%20spaces</QueryStringParam>

For more information, see:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_ref_urlencode.asp

--
Jesse Hager