select="String" as opposed to select="node" when passi

Hi,
I have a template with one parameter. When I call the template;
<xsl:call-template name="tname">
 <xsl:with-param name="var1" select="STRING"/>
</xsl:call-template>

When i try to to do this, it returns an error because there is no <STRING> node. However, what I actually want is for the literal 'STRING' to be passed as an argument to the template.

Is this possible?

Thanks,
Krish

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