Well I found out what my problem was. Seems the Xalan.jar version I had was
very old, I went and downloaded the new version and no sooner did I place it
in my classpath and run this, and the list populated. The code you provided
did help as well. Thanks Brian for the help.

John M. Fernandes

-----Original Message-----
From: Martinez, Brian [mailto:brian.martinez@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 4:15 PM
To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE:  passing NodeList through Global Parameter to XSL
styles heet problem m 


> From: Fernandes, John [mailto:jfernandes@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 1:50 PM
> Subject: RE:  passing NodeList through Global Parameter to XSL
> styles heet problem m 
> 
> 
> Thank you for the quick reply Brian. However it still 
> produces an empty
> drop-down. Its almost as if it is not being able to find the 
> elements in the
> node set. Anyone else have any suggestions on what I may attempt.

Hmm, it seems minor, but try:

<select>
  <xsl:for-each select="$v_employer/employer/option">
    <option value="{.}"><xsl:value-of select="."/></option>
  </xsl:for-each>
</select>

After reading your message again, it appears as though you convert the
entire parameter to a node-set.  $v_employer by itself represents the root
node of the node-set, so the XPath expression in my original suggestion
would be the same as writing select="/option", which isn't what you want.
See if that fixes your problem.

cheers,
b.

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