simple matching problem

First off, thanks a ton to Michael and Jeni for helping me out lately.

Here's another: This seems to find the element node where @task = 1, but
it doesn't actually write out the value of @task. Why?
It just writes out:
@TASK =

Thanks-
 Mac

<xsl:param name="$nextTask" select="1" />

<xsl:if test="//*[(_at_)task=$nextTask]">
        @TASK = <xsl:value-of select="@task" />
</xsl:if>



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