Sorry if i am ignorant i am new to xslt my actual problem is
i have an xml file like this

<ROOT>
<root2>
<a>texta</a>
<b>textb</b>
<c>c one</c>
<c>ctow</c>
<id>1</id>
</root2>
<root2>
<a>texta</a>
<b>textb</b>
<c>cs</c>
<c>css</c>
<id>1</id>
</root2>
<root2>
<a>texta</a>
<b>textb</b>
<c>c one</c>
<c>ctow</c>
<id>2</id>
</root2>
<root2>
<a>texta</a>
<b>textb</b>
<c>c one</c>
<c>ctow</c>
<id>3</id>
</root2>

<ROOT>
<id idn=1>
<a> appears only once for one id
<b> appears only once for one id
<c>c one</c>
<c>ctow</c>
<c>cs</c>
<c>css</c>
<id>

From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE:  Contitional statement
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:52:07 +0100

> > <xsl:value-of select="ROW/KEY[id=$var]"/>
> > is this right to use....
> This is correct XSL-T, but the result might not be what you expect:
>
> input:
> <row>
> <key id="foo">foo1</key>
> <key id="bar">bar1</key>
> <key id="foo">foo2</key>
> <key id="bar">bar2</key>
> </row>
>
> <xsl:variable name="var">foo</xsl:variable>
> <xsl:value-of select="row/key[id=$var]"/>
>
> will result in:
>
> "foo1 foo2"
>
Wrong. It will result in "foo1". <xsl:value-of>, given a node-set, takes the
string value of the first node.

Mike Kay
Software AG

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