Need assistance with a match string

Hi-

I am having trouble with grabbing the title associated with an element's ID
attribute value (we are calling it an "eid") and am hoping someone can see my
mistake. I have the ID value that I am pointing to in a variable (below I call
it $linkId). I want to say "give me the title of the element in my document
that matches this id value". I know my ID value is working because the actual
link points to the correct location in the document but I just can't get the
title to appear.

We have lots of different elements that this eid could be on so I need to look
for any element that matches this id.

My statement looks like:
<xsl:value-of select="//*[@eid='{$linkId}']/title"/>

Currently it is not returning anything. My gut feeling is that something is
wrong where I am trying to match the attribute to a variable value. I have
tried many things like removing the quotes, brackets, or both and none of
these options give me anything except one gives an error.

I have to put my link ID in a variable because I have to do some massaging on
the original ID value since we do not use unique ID values across a single
document (that wasn't my choice but I am having to make it work this way).

We are using a Saxon parser if that helps.

Thanks for any suggestions you can offer on this,
Cindy Hunt