I am trying the href links to a different part of the site (redirect) and am having issues in xslt - it always puts the current website/parent nodes/ before any path.  What I want is to eliminate the current /parent nodes/ to leave just the website/ and add the passed in path to the url.  So for example - it is rendering:

href="localhost/current parent/new node path"

and what I want is

href="localhost/new node path"

Here is the macro code

  <xsl:variable name="urlRedirect" select="/macro/urlClassicRoot"/>

  <xsl:variable name="nodeTypeAlias" select="$currentPage/node[$pos]/@nodeTypeAlias"/>

        <xsl:choose>
          <xsl:when test="$nodeTypeAlias = 'Classic' ">
            <xsl:element name="a">
              <xsl:attribute name="href">
                <xsl:value-of select="$urlRedirect"/>
              </xsl:attribute>
              <xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/node[$pos]/data [@alias = 'FriendlyName']/text()"/>
            </xsl:element>
          </xsl:when>
          <xsl:otherwise >
            <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl($currentPage/node[$pos]/@id)}">
              <xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/node[$pos]/data [@alias = 'FriendlyName']/text()"/>
            </a>
          </xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>

I tried this using an <a href> instead of <xsl:element> and had no luck there either.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Mike