I had the same issue and resolved it using <xsl:text> in an <xsl:element> :
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<xsl:element name="a">
	<xsl:attribute name="href">
		<xsl:value-of select="."/>
		<xsl:text>.htm</xsl:text>
	</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>
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Linc

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Williams [mailto:mark@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, 23 September 2004 2:39 AM
To: XSL-List
Subject:  remove white space

Hi,

Is there any easy xslt function for removing white space in an element other
than strip-space.  I have an element which contains urls, some of which have
white space in the middle of the url.  Strip-space won't help with this.

Thanks,

Mark Williams