Loose the attribute value template and the quotes in your XPath.
<xsl:value-of select="//*[(_at_)eid='{$linkId}']/title"/>
becomes
<xsl:value-of select="//*[(_at_)eid=$linkId]/title"/>
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Charles Knell
cknell(_at_)onebox(_dot_)com - email
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From: Cindy Hunt <Cindy(_dot_)Hunt(_at_)sas(_dot_)com>
Sent: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:24:51 -0500
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Subject: [xsl] Need assistance with a match string
Hi-
I am having trouble with grabbing the title associated with an element's ID
attribute value (we are calling it an "eid") and am hoping someone can see my
mistake. I have the ID value that I am pointing to in a variable (below I call
it $linkId). I want to say "give me the title of the element in my document
that matches this id value". I know my ID value is working because the actual
link points to the correct location in the document but I just can't get the
title to appear.
We have lots of different elements that this eid could be on so I need to look
for any element that matches this id.
My statement looks like:
<xsl:value-of select="//*[(_at_)eid='{$linkId}']/title"/>
Currently it is not returning anything. My gut feeling is that something is
wrong where I am trying to match the attribute to a variable value. I have
tried many things like removing the quotes, brackets, or both and none of these
options give me anything except one gives an error.
I have to put my link ID in a variable because I have to do some massaging on
the original ID value since we do not use unique ID values across a single
document (that wasn't my choice but I am having to make it work this way).
We are using a Saxon parser if that helps.
Thanks for any suggestions you can offer on this,
Cindy Hunt
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