Convert output of xsl to a url upon conditions - html

Question

I'm very much a novice at the moment, however I have used xsl to format an xml feed to out put into html for my site. However, I would like to go a step further by also converting some of the output text to an html link.
Are there any tutorials available that could help?
To give a bit better context, the output is a football league table, that I would like to make the teams names automatically link to a url. So if name = 'Portsmouth' then I would want Portsmouth to become a link I would determine. How do I format the table below to do this for all the potentially different team names?
<xsl:for-each select="team">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="position"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="name"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="played"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="won"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="drawn"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="lost"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="for"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="against"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="goalDifference"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="points"/></td>
</tr>
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Answer 1

If you want to conditionally output a tags you can do the following.
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="//team"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="team">
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="position"/>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="name='Portsmouth'">
<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="concat('someurl.com?name=',name)"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</a>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="name"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="played"/>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="won"/>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="drawn"/>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="lost"/>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="for"/>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="against"/>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="goalDifference"/>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="points"/>
</td>
</xsl:template>
Use apply-templates instead of a foreach loop.
If one of the teams is Portsmouth, the output would be
<td><a href="someurl.com?name=Portsmouth"/></td>
If you want each team to have a url then simply remove the choose statement and leave
<td>
<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="concat('someurl.com?name=',name)"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</a>
</td>