>   <xsl:if test="{$BigQuery}">

Get rid of the AVT, that is the curly brackets....this is an error

U may want to look into extension functions such as SAXON's
evaluate...as you may want to dynamically evaluate an XPATH statement,
which of course is not a feature within XSLT 1.0

gl, jim fuller


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