URL decomposition

At last, a question for the list which seems to go beyond newbiness!

Can you think of a way to decompose a URL?

I want to take something like: http://www.agilic.com/purchase.htm and end up
with purchase.htm. I've managed to use some of the string manipulation
capabilities of XPath to do things like change the file suffix from ".htm"
to ".xsl", but with only "substring-after()" and nothing I can find to loop
over the slash characters I'm not sure how to do this in XSLT.

For example, if there were something like <xsl:while> I could do something
like:

        <xsl:while test="contains($xslfile,'/')">
          <xsl:variable name="xslfile"><xsl:value-of
select="substring-after('/',$xslfile)"/></xsl:variable>
        </xsl:while>

But I can't find a way to do the job of my fictitious <xsl:while>

Thanks

Mark
--
Agile HTML Editor
  Agilic Corporation
    http://www.agilic.com
 


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