[xsl] Substring Misunderstood?

["Robin Samways" <rsamways@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

This is my first post to this list after many months of watching and
learning from rest of you.

I have finally started to get down to business.

Here is my problem.

I am trying to use substring to return a string from a variable which gets a
new value after each pass through a sorted list.  As follows:

<xsl:template match="employee">

  <xsl:variable name="idvalue" select="id"/>

  <xsl:variable name="idStr">
    <xsl:if test="substring($idvalue,1)='1_1'">
      &#160;&#160;<xsl:value-of select="id"/>
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:variable>

  <div align="left">
    <xsl:value-of select="$idStr"/>
    <xsl:value-of select="name"/> - <xsl:value-of select="position"/>
  </div>

</xsl:template>

I had expected to get several lines of indented divs but instead I only get
one!

Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance,
R.Samways


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