Hi, David:

	Thanks for the suggestions :).
	Sorry the original explanation may not be very clear :(  I knew it
could be confusing, and was trying to explain it the clearest possible way.
Let me give it another try here:
	I want to pass in the name of the attribute into a template
($attributeName).  The template will then print out the value stored for the
attribute (@$attributeName).

Hope this helps to clarify, thanks.

Xiaocun Xu
Emptoris, Inc.
xxu@xxxxxxxxxxxx

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 11:24 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  value of attribute where the name of the 
> attribute is
> being passe d in as param
> 
> 
> 
> > Would this be possible at all?
> 
> whatever you are trying to do is possible but it isn't at all 
> clear what
> you are trying to do.
> 
> But never use {} in XPath expressions (eg select, test or match
> attributes) they are only used in attribute value templates.
> 
> <xsl:value-of select="@attributeName"/>
> gives you the value of an attribute called attributeName
> 
> <xsl:value-of select="$attributeName"/>
> gives you the value of a variable/parameter called attributeName
> 
> 
> <xsl:copy-of select="$attributeName/@*"/>
> gives you all the attribute nodes in the node set stored in 
> the variable
> called attributeName
> 
> But whether or not any of those are what you want is immpossible to
> tell.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
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