[uf-discuss] URLs in hrefs

[Ryan King]

On Apr 20, 2007, at 6:08 AM, Nic James Ferrier wrote:
> "David Janes" <davidjanes at blogmatrix.com> writes:
>
>> The reason that there has been little discussion is that the rules  
>> for
>> dealing with this are well understood and settled. This document [1]
>> will give you everything you need -- written in 1995.
>>
>> Regards, etc...
>>
>> [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1808.txt
>
> I disagree. I think Mikey raises a good point. When you're parsing
> bits of data from a page with xslt or javascript you sometimes have to
> do the url resolution yourself and that is not as simple as it should
> be.

Here's a stylesheet that'll help you do it in xslt:

http://www.w3.org/2000/07/uri43/uri.xsl

-ryan