<xsl:template name="setup_db">
    <xsl:param name="field"/>
    <xsl:param name="db_list"/>
    <xsl:param name="full_path"/>
    <xsl:variable name="nodetree">
      <xsl:for-each select="$full_path[contains($dbs_searched,@db)]">
<!-- $dbs_searched variable is passed from a different stylesheet -->
        <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:variable>

<!-- This statement does print out the attribute value of field $field,
which means that $full_path is a valid path and does contain @db
attribute -->
    <xsl:value-of select="$full_path/@db" />

Greg Faron
Integre Technical Publishing Co.