My many thanks for all your helpful responses to my question.  After looking
at all the answers, it was, of course, staring me in the face.  I was
thinking that in the line:

		   <xsl:element name="a">

"a" was a place holder for something else.  It wasn't.  Sometimes, the
elegance of simplicity it too obvious to comprehend.

Now to test this.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diamond, Jason [mailto:Jason.Diamond@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 4:39 PM
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE:  another href question
> 
> 
> The output of your snippet will be:
> 
> <a href="ContactUs.xsl">Contact Us</a>
> 
> Is that not what you wanted?
> 
> What do you mean by "in place of 'a'"? The name attribute on the
> <xsl:element> element specifies the name of the element to 
> output to the
> result tree. To construct a link in HTML, you must use the 
> <a> element with
> an href attribute. So your sample looks fine.
> 
> Jason.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Turner, Althea [mailto:Althea.Turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 4:14 PM
> > To: 'XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> > Subject:  another href question
> > 
> > 
> > hello all,
> > 
> > I have a fairly (actually very new) newbie question to put 
> to you good
> > folks.  I have checked the FAQ and archives and haven't found 
> > the answer to
> > my question.  I am trying to make text link from one xsl page 
> > to another.  I
> > can link just fine to an html page.  I have found the 
> > following bit of code
> > and think I am getting close to a solution.  
> > 
> > <!-- test for linking text   -->
> >          <xsl:element name="a">
> >          <xsl:attribute 
> >               name="href">ContactUs.xsl</xsl:attribute>
> >          <xsl:text>Contact Us</xsl:text>
> >          </xsl:element>
> > 
> > My question is this:  What should be in place of "a"?  
> > Elsewhere in our
> > docs, the "name" refers to a java class.  Do I need to have a 
> > java class for
> > href?  What am I not comprehending here?  I'm fairly sure 
> > that Xlink is
> > overkill for making simple text links.  
> > 
> > Please be gentle, I'm new to XSL.  Thanks!
> > 
> > Althea Turner
> > Summit Information Services
> > 541-758-5888 x 6902
> > 
> > 
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