I believe you are simply missing a /. It
should be something like this:

<xsl:value-of select="id($pid)/@title"/>

Sara

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Quinn [mailto:jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 3:13 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: attributes of ID node
> 
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to get named attributes from a node 
> whose ID I have?
> 
> <xsl:variable name="pid" select="section">
> ...
> <xsl:value-of select="id($pid)@title"/>
> 
> on
> 
> <threads>
>     <thread id="thing" title="">
>         <blah/><blah/><blah/>
>     </thread>
> </threads>
> 
> Does not seem to work.
> The ID is working fine, I can get it's element, just not it's 
> attributes.
> 
> thanks for any help
> 
> Jeremy
> 
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