If you're restricted to XSLT 1.0, use a recursive template or an
xx:tokenize() extension function to break the text into words, then test
each word to see if it starts with "http://" or "HTTP://".

Michael Kay

> 
> Of course, you're right.  Any url's that don't start with 
> http:// or href will be ignored.  What I want to do is take 
> an xml file like this:
> 
> <document>
> <longstring>for more information look here: http://url.com  
> for other products look here: http://moreinformation.com  to 
> see a review go here: http://www.review.com. </longstring> </document>
> 
> and translate it into this:
> 
> <document>
>      <url>http://url.com</url>
> </document>
> 
> <document>
>      <url>http://moreinformation.com</url>
> </document>
> 
> <document>
>      <url>http://www.review.com</url>
> </document>
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
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> Please try to explain you question more clearly. What are you 
> trying to do? What do you mean "Obviously I know the url will 
> start with 'http://'
> - how do you know this? (Many URLs do not start with this string).
> 
> Michael Kay
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> > I'm not sure how to do this.  Obviously I know the url will 
> start with 
> > "http://" but I don't know what it will end with. Any thoughts or 
> > pointers are appreciated.
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