XSLer wrote:
> If I add: 
> 
> <a href="/..{url}">
> 
> It returns:
> 
> http://myservername/..<the url>
> 
> Am I doing what you suggest wrong? I could very well be. 

I think the suggestion is to either write a (recursive) template that 
returns the substring after the last slash or to try whether
   <a href="{url}/..">
works for whatever application consumes the link URL.

A template could look like

<xsl:template name="substring-after-last">
   <xsl:param name="str"/>
   <xsl:param name="separator" select="'/'"/>
   <xsl:choose>
     <xsl:when test="contains($str, $separator)">
       <xsl:call-template name="substring-after-last">
         <xsl:with-param name="str" select="substring-after($str, 
$separator)"/>
         <xsl:with-param name="separator" select="$separator"/>
       </xsl:call-template>
     </xsl:when>
     <xsl:otherwise>
       <xsl:value-of select="$str"/>
     </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

and be called as e.g.

     <xsl:call-template name="substring-after-last">
       <xsl:with-param name="str" select="url"/>
     </xsl:call-template>

Not tested but you should get the idea.


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