> So you could do something like:
> 
>   saxon:evaluate('/test/$p1/text()', $test)
> 
> but this won't give you what you want either, because it's asking for
> the text node child of the node held by $test, which is the text node
> child of the <input> element. 

And it should be fairly obvious that it's wrong, because the whole point of
saxon:evaluate is to evaluate an expression that's constructed at run-time,
which means it never makes sense for the argument to be a string literal.

Michael Kay