> When you say "concatenate" them, do you mean you want them contiguous in the
> output with no newlines intervening, like this?

Oh if that's what was meant (I thought the idea was to produce an XPath
string) then  yes, just
<xsl:template match="item>
  <xsl:copy-of select="text()|ver[@id=$ver]"/>
</xsl:template>
will do the trick.

David

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