It's not the world's best error message, but my guess would be that $myinfo
isn't a node-set. Perhaps it's a result-tree-fragment, or a string.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dharm Baval [mailto:drm_xslt@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 30 October 2004 15:20
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  XPath Error
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am getting the following error when I run
> 
> #xsltproc test.xml
> 
> 
> XPath error : Invalid type
> runtime error: file http://my.com/myinfo.xsl line 221
> element variable
> Evaluating global variable   being computed ... 
> failed
> 
> Please let me know what I have to do. 
> 
> The line 221 in myinfo.xsl is
> 
> <xsl:variable name="staff_table"
> select="$myInfo/myinfo/myname/@play" />
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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