> yes, that removes ALL newlines.  I would like to preserve the original 
> newlines while not adding the extra two. 

normalize-space() converts a run of newlines to a space.
Even if you kept a newline in the attribute value it would be reported
as a space by an XML parser when the result tree is used, so it may be
that using normalize-space is all you need.

Note also that
>    <xsl:attribute name='name'>
>     <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes"

d-o-e is specified to have no effect on attribute values.

Otherwise it would probably be simpler to look to the definition of your
extension function
urldecoder:decode()
rather than try to correct teh output of that function with xslt1's
somewhat limited string handling.

David

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