Try <xsl:value-of select="concat('http://',.)" />


> -----Original Message-----
> From: prashanth.b.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:prashanth.b.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 11:51 AM
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> Subject: Including http:// as value of href
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I believe that the answer to my question has been posted 
> before, but I've
> searched the archives and am unable to find it.  Even though 
> the outputted HTML
> works to display the link correctly, it is not very pretty.  
> I would like to
> directly insert 'http://' into the beginning of the value of 
> HREF.  I would
> appreciate any instance.
> 
> Thanks.
> Prashanth Rao
> 
> Here are my XML, XSL, HTML snippets:
> 
> XML
> -------
>    <url>www.yahoo.com</url>
> 
> XSL
> -------
>   <xsl:template match="url">
>      <A>
>         <xsl:attribute name="HREF">
>         http://<xsl:value-of select="."/>
>      </xsl:attribute>
>         <xsl:apply-templates/>
>      </A>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
> 
> HTML Output
> ----------------------
> <A HREF="
>         http://www.ford.com">www.ford.com</A>
> 
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