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Ok, but that's not the case when using variable. And i change that to <xsl:value-of select="document('connections.xml')/connections/connection[@id=./Conn]"/> but it still doen4t work the way i expected... I On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:00:19 -0000, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Why is this xpath NOT working > > > > <xsl:value-of > > select="document('connections.xml')/connections/connection[@id > > =Conn]"/> > > > > and this IS > > > > <xsl:variable name="conn" select="Conn"/> > > <xsl:value-of > > select="document('connections.xml')/connections/connection[@id > > =$conn]"/> > > Because the context for evaluating a path expression (such as Conn) is > different depending on where it's written. In your furst case, it's looking > for Conn as a child element of connection. > > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/
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