various ways of combining those:

Michael Kay wrote:

It's a bug in the XSLT processor you were using. You might call that an
accident, I don't.

Very true.  My "cut down" example worked (by bug/accident),
but when I put it into a larger stylesheet w/ namespaces, it started
complaining about it (but processed it anyway ... wierd).

<xsl:template match="text()[ starts-with( ., '../Russia2006/' ) ] | @href[
starts-with( ., '../Russia2006/' ) ]">

Thanks for all the help.  I just had an ahh haa moment.  I need to refactor
the XML and store the complete URL (easy enough).  The purpose was
to have relative URLs in the HTML and full URLs in Atom/RSS feeds.

Instead of "data complete" the URL for Atom/RSS, I can just remove the
website base URL and add ../another-app/index.html for my HTML
tranformation.  That'd be much easier.  And if I weren't so tired to
begin with I might have figured that out earlier.  Now, to go delete
a bunch of crappy XSL.

Thanks for all the help ...
--
Rodman