RE: Editing URLs

Are you sure you just want to add "http://" in front of the URL? If so
it's trivial, as several respondants have shown. But I would have
thought what you really wanted was to transform the relative URI into an
absolute URI, by resolving it against some base URI (typically the base
URI of the element in the source document). That can be done in XPath
2.0 using the resolve-uri() function, but it's not straightforward in
1.0, and probably needs an extension function to get it right.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> John Sturman
> Sent: 28 April 2003 22:10
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> Subject:  Editing URLs
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am writing an XSLT that I want to edit HREFs.  Currently my 
> XHTML source 
> files do not include http:// in the cross-references.  They 
> are phrased as 
> "<a href="maps.maps.html">blah, blah, blah</a>".  Because of 
> my process I 
> need to add in "http://" at the beginning of the URLs.  For 
> the life of me, 
> I cannot figure out how to make this work.  Any suggestions?
> 
> John Sturman
> MapInfo Corporation
> 
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