Many thanks. This has helped me getting forward.

Houman

-----Original Message-----
From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 December 2006 16:36
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Searching in Sub-children from an Array


in xslt2 something like

 <xsl:key name="ids" match="*" use="@ID"/>

<xsl:template match="Steps">
 <xsl:variable name="ids" select="tokenize(.,',\s*')"/>
 <xsl:apply-templates mode="step" select="key('ids',$ids[1])[1]">
   <xsl:with-param name="ids" select="$ids[position()!=1]"/>
  </xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template mode="step" match="*">
 <xsl:param name="ids"/>
 do something with this node then
  <xsl:apply-templates mode="step" select="key('ids',$ids[1],.)[1]">
   <xsl:with-param name="ids" select="$ids[position()!=1]"/>
  </xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>

David