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[Chris Hillery <chillery+launchpad@xxxxxxxxx>]

The W3C doesn't care about filesystems. :) encode-for-uri() just escapes illegal characters in URIs.

Fortunately, EXPath cares: the File module has functions to go back and forth. file:path-to-uri() converts a filesystem path to a file: URI, and file:path-to-uri() (which is a bit oddly named) does the reverse.

Note that those functions don't work "in an OS independent way" as you say - they work differently depending on the platform running the script. So file:path-to-uri("C:\foo") won't work on a Unix system. I'm not sure that's a problem, but if you think you need to be able to do that kind of conversion anywhere, that would be a new feature request for EXpath to consider.
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