RE: [xsl] Need assistance with a match string

[cknell@xxxxxxxxxx]

Loose the attribute value template and the quotes in your XPath.

<xsl:value-of select="//*[@eid='{$linkId}']/title"/>

becomes

<xsl:value-of select="//*[@eid=$linkId]/title"/>
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Charles Knell
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-----Original Message-----
From:     Cindy Hunt <Cindy.Hunt@xxxxxxx>
Sent:     Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:24:51 -0500
To:       <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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="//*[@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