<xsl:template match="a"><!-- just letting it default -->
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="a//text()">
  <a href="{ancestor::a[1]/@href}">
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </a>
</xsl:template>

Cheers,
Wendell

Has anyone written the XSLT required to "unwrap" nested links?

I'd like to turn, for example:

<p>
  text
  <a href="1">
    text
    <span>
      <a href="2">test</a>
      text
    </span>
    text
  </a>
  text
</p>

into

<p>
  text
  <a href="1">
    text
    <span/>
  </a>
  <span>
    <a href="2">test</a>
    text
  </span>
  <a href="1">
    text
  </a>
  text
</p>

With extra bonus points for discarding the empty span (if it doesn't
have an ID :-)

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

--
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XML Standards Engineer | not bear a single definition.--Marquess of
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