XSL: In-Line Links

I am having trouble finding a way to transform links from XML data into HTML links - and have them appear at the appropriate place in the text.

Consider the following XML data source.

<p>This webpage can be found
<link url=“http:www.somewhere.com”>here</link>
on the web.</p>

Now, I have had no trouble grabbing the text of the paragraph for HTML using this XSL:

<xsl:for-each select="//p">
<p><xsl:value-of select="."/></p>
</xsl:for-each>

But, unfortunately that only prints the text and does not create a link.

(i.e. HTML result is <p>This webpage can be found here on the web.</p>)

I can transform the link data to an HTML link using this XSL:

<xsl:for-each select="//link">
<xsl:element name="a">
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="//link/@url" />
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="target">blank</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="//link" />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:for-each>

But, unfortunately that only prints the link and not the surrounding paragraph.

(i.e. HTML result is <a href=“http://www.somewhere.com” target=“blank”>here</a>)


My problem is that I would like to transform the link and print the paragraph with the link in it.

i.e. I would like for the HTML to be:

<p> This webpage can be found <a href=“http:www.somewhere.com” target=”blank>here</a> on the web</p>



Can anyone help me with this?

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