Using a variable inside XSL:text in roundrect tag in XSLT

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I am new to xslt coding and need your help. I am designing an email template using xslt and I have created a button using styling. This button is displayed only when the receiver is Microsoft outlook(mso). Following is the code. Please pay attention to the href attribute inside v:roundrect tag.

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[<!--[if gte mso 9]> <v:roundrect xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" href="{$URL}" style="height:37px;v-text-anchor:middle;width:190px;" arcsize="15%" stroke="f" fillcolor="#557d9a">
        <w:anchorlock/>
        <center style="color:#ffffff;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:bold;text-decoration: none;">
           Verify Email Address 
        </center>
    </v:roundrect> <![endif]-->]]> </xsl:text>

I have used a variable called 'URL', which is the value of the element:

<xsl:variable name="URL">
      <xsl:value-of select="ASBMessage/LinkURL"/>
    </xsl:variable>

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However, the output which comes is not as expected. The variable url value doesnt come and {$URL}' comes as it is behind the button. Any idea how to use the variable value in this situation?

What I have tried:

I have tried to use
xsl:value-of select="ASBMessage/LinkURL"/
directly instead of {$URL}, and few other things, but didnt get the required output.