Re: configuring a conditional

As Wendell said you want the linkend attribute of your $cite-ref element

so
        <xsl:if test="$cite-ref is
key('refs',$cite-ref/@linkend)[1]">FIRST</xsl:if>


incidentally it looks like that code requres  $cite-ref to be a single
element node, but you have declared it as

     <xsl:param name="cite-ref" as="element()*"/>

ie you allow it to be the empty sequence or more than one element.

David

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