At 2004-02-27 11:04 -0500, Bennett wrote:
>          Is there a way to select an element via a variable attribute and 
>  compare the value of that variable attribute to a string?
> 
> What I'm looking for would kind of look like the code below (if it was 
> legal to use an ATV for attribute names).
> 
> /a/*[@{$attrName} = 'someString']


/a/*[@*[name()=$attrName][.='someString]]

Brain teasers like this are in my XSLT course ... I'll think about adding 
this one!

I hope this helps.

....................... Ken


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