<xsl:template name="makeSegLabel">
<xsl:variable name="ana" select="tokenize(@ana, '(\s+)')"/>
<xsl:for-each select="$ana">
 <xsl:value-of select="."/><xsl:text>:</xsl:text>
 <xsl:value-of select="//category[@id = .]/catDesc"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

Where I want to tokenize the ana attribute on the element which called
this template, and then for each whitespace separated value, I want to
put it out, and then go get a description of what that value means
from elsewhere in the document.

However, I'm rightly told that I cannot select a node here because the
context is an atomic value.

Many thanks,
-James
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