If I add: 

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

It returns:

http://myservername/..<the url>

Am I doing what you suggest wrong? I could very well be. 

"Julian F. Reschke" wrote:

> XSLer schrieb:
> > If one has an XSL select that returns a URL:
> > 
> > <xsl:value-of select="url" />
> > 
> > which returns a link like the following:
> > 
> > http://www.sample.com/sample/sample.aspx
> > 
> > Is it possible to transform the link so that it returns
> > 
> > http://www.sample.com/sample
> > 
> > I cant just use a ../ in front of it, but does anyone know a  transformation 
> > technique that would allow the link to return the one level higher? I just 
> > need the link to instead of being the complete url to return the folder that 
> > is contain the relevant item.
> > 
> > The reason behind this is a have a folder that contains a collection of 
> > files, and I would prefer to allow the option to return the folder name in 
> > the return of the specific page I am working on. Whenever I put the ../ in 
> > front of it, it returns the up from the page that I am currently on, rather 
> > than moving up one level from the url return.
> > 
> > Seems like it should be easy, but I am unable to get it to work correctly.
> 
> Either remove the last path segment, or add "/.." and hope that the URI 
> consumer gets that right...
> 
> Best regards, Julian
>