xidel skips "+" character when urldecode

[Baltazar500]

Hi.

xidel skips "+" character when urldecode :(

echo "%3D+%3D"|xidel -se 'uri-decode($raw)' = =

Xidel 0.9.9 (20231105.git59e545f2ae619d94dfc31fcbf518ebca352c342d)

[Reino17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding#The_application/x-www-form-urlencoded_type:

The encoding used by default is based on an early version of the general URI percent-encoding rules, with a number of modifications such as newline normalization and replacing spaces with + instead of %20.

Also see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1634271/url-encoding-the-space-character-or-20.

So both decode to a \<space> and Xidel is correct.

$ xidel -se 'uri-encode("= =")'
%3D%20%3D

$ xidel -se '
  uri-decode("%3D%20%3D")
  uri-decode("%3D+%3D")
'
= =
= =

[Baltazar500]

So both decode to a and Xidel is correct.

But the problem is that after urldecode/urlencode uri/path that contains the "+" character becomes incorrect

php/php-cli doesn't decode "+" into spaces :/

[Reino17]

It's really hard to help you if you don't tell us exactly what your full input is and what output you're expecting.
If I'm guessing however, you'll probably need request-decode().

[Baltazar500]

@Reino17, here is an example xml with uri/path containing "+"

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='yes' ?>
    <map>
        <string name="%2Fstorage%2Fsdcard1%2FDownload%2Ffiles+folders.txt">250,250,1705803067359</string>
    </map>
</xml>

After utldecode the path becomes incorrect because the "+" symbol is skipped

[Reino17]

https://stackoverflow.com/a/40292770:

A space may only be encoded to "+" in the [...] key-value pairs query part of an URL. [...] In the rest of URLs, it is encoded as %20.

"files+folders.txt" in your input is not the query part of an URL. It's the path.
If you expect the output to be /storage/sdcard1/Download/files+folders.txt, then the input is just simply wrong. The + instead should've been %20 %2F.