finding nodes

Hi,
    Iam trying to find the set of nodes having the name attribute
= '$something'. But, Iam only being returned an empty set.

In my stylesheet I have this:

I have $value =' resident'

 <xsl:variable name="nset">
 <xsl:value-of select="//campus[@name = $value]"/>
 </xsl:variable>

<xsl:message> nodeset  <xsl:value-of select="$nset"/></xsl:message>

I would then like to iterate  over the nodeset returned.

But all I get is

Message: nodeset
Message: nodeset

In my xml I have

<campus name="resident">
     <detail>
          <student name="location" type="ps:north"/>
          <student name="distance" type="ps:km"/>
     </detail>
</campus>

My context node is elsewhere in the xml file.

Regards,
Omprakash.V




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