Jeff,

>I'm guessing the "url" is an element within scope that has the desired
>url string within it's text node(s)?
>
>If so, then...
>
><a>
>   <xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="url"/></xsl:attribute>
>   link
></a>
>

Not wrong, but clumsy.  You need to look up attribute value templates
too, which gives you:

<a href="{url}"> link </a>

Regards,
Trevor Nash

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