<xsl:for-each select="admissions/state/text()">
<xsl:if test=".=$state">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
so here you are iterating through each of teh text nodes of teh state
element. in the case of
<state>Alabama
<statelink
href="http://www.alabar.org/page.cfm?view=3&subgroup=main">
Bar Admissions Information</statelink>
</state>
there are two of those:
"Alabama
"
and
"
"
either side of the statelink element.
Neither of those is equal to "Alabama"
You want normalize-space() in there somewhere but I wonder if you really
mean to iterate through all th etext children of each state, or just
have one test for each state, something like
<xsl:for-each select="admissions/state">
<xsl:if test="normalize-space(text()[1])=$state">
<xsl:value-of select="$state"/>
David
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