attributes of ID node

Dear All,

Can anyone tell me how to get named attributes from a node whose ID I have?

<xsl:variable name="pid" select="section">
...
<xsl:value-of select="id($pid)@title"/>

on

<threads>
    <thread id="thing" title="">
        <blah/><blah/><blah/>
    </thread>
</threads>

Does not seem to work.
The ID is working fine, I can get it's element, just not it's attributes.

thanks for any help

Jeremy

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   Jeremy Quinn                                           Karma Divers
                                                       webSpace Design
                                            HyperMedia Research Centre

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