Thanks Dave.

I didn't know I could do the <a href="{$sid}/...  like so. I thought I tried
that before and didn't see it work, but I must have not done it right.

As for the extra spaces, i guess I just have to make sure not to leave any
in the XSL so that it doesn't add those extra characters in.

Thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 9:27 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  URL rewriting of links on xsl pages?
> 
> 
> 
>   I take it what your saying is I would have to do something like:
>  
>   <a>
>     <xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of
>   select="$sid"/>/path/page.jsp</xsl:attribute>
>   </a>
> 
> which is just a long form of th eequivalent expression:
> 
> <a href="{$sid}/path/page.jsp"/>
> 
> (no content to the a element, so nothing to click on??)
> 
> ] Also, why is it sometimes when I do this:
> ] 
> ]  <a>
> ]   <xsl:attribute name="href">
> ]     <xsl:value-of select="$sid"/>/path/page.jsp
>                                                  ^
> ]   </xsl:attribute>
>  ^^^
> ] </a>
> 
> In this form you have a newline and 3 spaces at the end of the
> attribute. These will show up as numeric character references
> to ensure that they are not removed by th eXML parser's attribute
> normalisation. You don't want the white space, but XSLT doesn't know
> that and it's mandated to preserve it if you enter it in this way.
> 
> David
> 
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