Yang,
You just have it the wrong way round.
<xsl:for-each select="$source[contains(., $keywrd)]"> 

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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> E100 SFYang
> Sent: 19 December 2001 23:32
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  How to express a select attr in for-each for 
> conditional or nonconditonal case.
> 
> 
> Hi, listers, 
> 
> 	I use contains function to get the selected item defined 
> 	by select attr of param element. such as; 
> 
> 	<xsl:for-each select="$source[contains($keywrd,.)]"> 
> 
> 	Of course using this expression for empty param, 
> nothing will be displayed. 
> 
> 	I wonder how to modify the above select att to be able 
> to display 
> 
> 	 1. selected items when keywrd is not empty. 
> 	 2. all items when keywrd is empty.  
> 
> 	Thanks for any help in advance. 
> 
> 	Sun-fu Yang 
> 
> 	sfyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> 
> 	***  simplified xml file  ** 
> 	<?xml-stylesheet href="test.xsl" type="text/xsl"?> 
> 	<docs> 
> 	<item>a</item> 
> 	<item>b</item> 
> 	<item>c</item> 
> 	</docs> 
> 
> 
> 	***   xsl   file  ** 
> 	<?xml version='1.0'?> 
> 	<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="1.0"> 
> 	<xsl:key name="sourcekey" match="item" use="."/> 
> 	<xsl:variable name="source" 
> select="/docs/item[generate-id(.)=generate-id(key('sourcekey',
> .)[1])]"/>
> <xsl:param name="keywrd" select="'a,b'"/> 
> 	<xsl:template match="/"> 
> 
> 	<xsl:for-each select="$source[contains($keywrd,.)]"> 
> 	<xsl:value-of select="."/> 
> 	</xsl:for-each> 
> 	</xsl:template> 
> 	</xsl:stylesheet> 
> 
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