> Can anyone tell me why the following will not work?
It will work, it's just that it will do what the spec says and not what you
would like :-)

> XSL
>  <xsl:variable name="temp">data/row</xsl:variable>
> 
> the output says "cannot convert to 
> node-set".  

You have assigned the variable temp to the string "data/row" (actually to a
result tree fragment containing this string, but that's academic in this
case), not to the result of the XPath expression data/row. You have then
tried to use this string in a context where a nodeset is required. What you
meant to say was:

<xsl:variable name="temp" select="data/row"/>

Mike Kay


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