But why are you writing a script extension function to do this, rather
than just use XSLT?

Don't you just want something like

<xsl:template match="nodelistBook">
 <a href="http:\\s1cf013\irg_dev\d_debug?xxx={.}">
  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
 </a>
</xsl:template>

David

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