<AndyFlashREMOVE@t...> wrote in message 
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> Hi all.
>
> Well I picked a great project for my first stab at learning xslt. I've
> been trying for hours to get an xml style sheet to transform the
> following XML into a display of URLs.
>
> Can anyone help with this. The problem so far is with the use of "<"
> characters in the <a href=  section.
>
> I have read a few examples but it isn't making sense yet. I'd
> appreciate some help until I can source a decent book on the subject.
>
> What I want to end up with is something like this:
> <a href="http://www.awebsite.com/">A website</a>
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="mylinks.xslt"?>
> <Links>
>        <Link>
>            <description>CNN News</description>
>            <url>http://www.cnn.com/</url>
>        </Link>
>        <Link>
>            <description>Guitar Tabs</description>
>            <url>http://www.mxtabs.net/</url>
>        </Link>
> </Links>
>
>
As you haven't shown your XSL it's difficult but if you want to embed the 
value of an expression into an attribute the easiest way is to attribute 
value templates, so when processing each Link:

<a href="{url}"><xsl:value-of select="description" /></a>

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Joe