> From: Markus Jais [mailto:markusjais@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 3:19 PM
> Subject:  newbie question
> 
> 
> 
> but I do not understand. why are the contents of the <english_name>,
> <german_name> and <prey> printed and why is value="" ??

value-of returns the contents of your select expression, which is evaluated
as a string.  If the expression returns a node-set (as in your example),
value-of ignores any children elements and their attributes and just returns
the text, or nothing if the element is empty.

> and that "{comment}" would access the value of the "comment" 
> attribute.

First, you haven't defined an XSLT variable anywhere to hold the textual
value of comment, i.e.:

<xsl:for-each select="/birds/eagles">
  <xsl:variable name="comment" select="species/@comment"/>

Then you need to properly reference the variable in your markup:

  <input type="text" name="bla" value="{$comment}"/> <!-- note $ token -->
</xsl:for-each>

hth,
b.

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