The [c:]url-get element can be processed by the URL step to make a request to a URL.

The 'href' is the URL it will retrieve.

The 'parse-as-html' attribute controls converting HTML into XHTML.

The pipeline now looks like:

<p:pipe xmlns:p="urn:publicid:IDN+smallx.com:pipeline:1.0" name="get-tides"
   xmlns:c="urn:publicid:IDN+smallx.com:component-language:1.0"
   xmlns:f="urn:publicid:IDN+smallx.com:server:forms:post:1.0"
   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
   xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
   xmlns:t="http://www.smallx.com/services/tideinfo/2005"
>

  <p:template>
   <xsl:for-each select="t:tideinfo">
   <xsl:copy>
   <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
   <t:tide-data>
   <c:url-get href="http://tidesonline.nos.noaa.gov/data_read.shtml?station_info={@location}"
              parse-as-html="true"/>
   </t:tide-data>
   </xsl:copy>
   </xsl:for-each>
  </p:template>
  
  <p:url/>

</p:pipe>