> I want to be able to search all of
> the <elemC> nodes for the occurrence of a searchstring 

do you mean the text of elemC contains the string or equals it (I'll
assume the latter below)


<xsl:copy-of select="/elemA/elemB[elemC=$string]/elemC[1]"/>

David

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