RE: when question - am I doing something stupid or is this a

> Tje problem is that the test inside the xsl:when never succeeds.  
> I tried all 
> manner of combinations of @ and $ tokens in desperation and useing 
> test="@model=@applicableModel" succeeds in all cases 
> (presumably because 
> the value of applicableModel is being assigned to model 
> within the test 
> itself..?) but nothing else yields any results, even when 
> we're testing 
> model = 8800 against applicableModel = 8800.

I tried your code and after removing a few typos :-) this worked: 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">


<xsl:template match="schematics">
  <xsl:variable name="model" select="modelnumber"/>
  <xsl:variable name="applicableModel" 
select="documentation/currentModel"/>

  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="$model=$applicableModel">succeeded
    </xsl:when>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

On this test source I created: 

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<schematics>
   <modelnumber id="1">8000</modelnumber>

   <documentation>
   	<currentModel>8000</currentModel>
   </documentation>
</schematics>

The when test succeeded, so something else must be going wrong. 

Linda


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