Problems selecting attribues

Hi,

In a stylesheet, I have the following

<xsl:param name="hist" select="//HISTORY//LEVEL//SLIDE[@REF]"/>

<xsl:template match="SLIDES">
     <xsl:text> text1 </xsl:text>
     <xsl:value-of select="$hist"/>
     <xsl:text> text2 </xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

The output of this is:
text1 History text2

The XML source of the corresponding node however reads like:
...
<SLIDE REF="d://programs//xml//astron//documents//Hist_1.xml">History</SLIDE>
...

So, why do I get element content, where I want to have the attribute? How do I correctly select the attribute?
I'm using LotusXSL 0.18.5.

Regards

Heiko

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