> several places in my doc. However,
> I would like to be able to retrieve the value using $atomname without
> invoking <xsl:value> call, i.e. is

I'm not quite sure why you want to do this.  In general, <xsl:value-of>
is a perfectly good way to get the value of a variable.  If you want to
use it in a string along with other things, you might want to know about
concat().  You could say: <xsl:value-of select="concat('This atom is
called ', $atomname, '.')/>, for example.

 Steve


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