It doesn't work because you are not yet familiar with the attribute value template (avt). Add curly braces like this:

<xsl:value-of select="{$link-target}"/>

That's how you get the evluation of a variable in an attribute value.
-- 
Charles Knell
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-----Original Message-----
From:     McKinstry, Scott A <scott.a.mckinstry@xxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:47:45 -0500
To:       xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:   xpath predicate help

I am transforming SGML to XML.
The sample sgml is:

<graphic id="123" name="graphic" ......>
	<grphprim id="456" ....>
</graphic>