Hi,

I’m typesetting an XML document where the links to the images contain spaces which are encoded as %20

<graphic xlink:href="a%20filename%20with%20spaces.jpg"/>

Using this works in cases without spaces:

\startxmlsetups xml:fig:graphic

  \externalfigure[\xmlatt{#1}{xlink:href}]

\stopxmlsetups

This also works for normal spaces, but is there a way to decode/expand the %20s to regular spaces?

I’ve tried with some Lua, but I don’t really know how to pass data around.

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\startluacode

function replaceSpaces(s)

  result = string.gsub(s, "%%20", " ")

  context(result)

end

\stopluacode

\define[1]\replaceSpaces{\ctxlua{replaceSpaces("#1")}}

\startxmlsetups xml:fig:graphic

  \externalfigure[\replaceSpaces{\xmlatt{#1}{xlink:href}}]

\stopxmlsetups

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Any hints, why this does not work?`

Also, maybe there’s a simpler way for this kind of scenario?

Best,

Denis