You would need disable-output-escaping for this, but the simpler, faster and
more portable solution would be to generate the URL using the XSLT string
functions.

Something like:

<a
href='http://s1cf013/irg_dev/d_debug?xxx=&quot;{$bookList/state_1}'>...</a>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Frenkel,
> Garry J.
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 3:56 PM
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject:  Problem with msxsl:script
>
>
> I am attemting to dynamically generate a URL with a query string that is
> dependent on a value passed from an XML node by using the following code:
>
>
> <msxsl:script language="JScript" implements-prefix="user">
>     function getURL(nodelistBook) {
> 			var mURL =&quot;&lt;a href = &quot;  ;
> 			var mURL =  mURL + &quot;
> http:\\\\s1cf013\\irg_dev\\d_debug?xxx=&quot;;
> 			var curNode = nodelistBook.item(0);
> 			var state_1 =
> curNode.selectSingleNode('state_1').text;
> 			var mURL = mURL+ state_1 + ">"  ;
> 			var mURL = mURL+ state_1 ;
> 			var mURL = mURL+ &quot;&lt;/a&gt;&quot;;
>
> 			return mURL;
>     }
>   </msxsl:script>
>
> My return value as displayed by the browser is as follows:
>
> <a href = http:\\s1cf013\irg_dev\d_debug?xxx=01>01</a>
>
> which may look great but this is exactly what is diplayed, not the
> hyperlink, but this code as is.  The browser is doing as it is supposed to
> since it is receiving the output of the function as:  &lt;a href =
> http:\\s1cf013\irg_dev\d_debug?xxx=01&gt;01&lt;/a&gt;
>
> I have tried all different ways of expressing the less thans and greater
> thans and quotes but I can't seem to end up with code that will
> actually be
> expressed as text representing a hyperlink.
> Any takers?
>
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