Anderew, David, Michael, 
Thanks all! Even more help than I could have hoped for!
Steve

mnr steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Welch [mailto:ajwelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 11:04 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  parameters - element vs attributes


> <xsl:template name="siteLinks">
> <xsl:param name="theLinkGroup"></xsl:param>
>  <h2><xsl:value-of select="$theLinkGroup" /></h2>           
> <!----- does
> work
>   <ul class="xsmall">
>   <xsl:for-each select="//$theLinkGroup/link">                
>    <!-----
> won't work
>    <li><a>
>     <xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of
> select="url"/></xsl:attribute>
>      <xsl:value-of select="@title"/>
>     </a></li>
>   </xsl:for-each>
>   </ul>
> </xsl:template>

Nearly there, you want:

<xsl:for-each select="//link[parent::*[local-name() = $theLinkGroup]]">

Which roughly translates to 'select all <link> elements which have a parent
element called whatever the $theLinkGroup is, in any namespace'.

cheers
andrew 

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