You could use

<xsl:copy-of select="$text-1[current()/textNo='text-1']"/>

but people might question whether it's an improvement on your original.
Small is not always beautiful.

In XSLT 2.0 you can do

<xsl:copy-of select="if (textNo='text-1') then $text-1 else ()"/>

Michael 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Haase [mailto:haase@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 16 May 2006 22:40
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Need help for XSL beautifaction 
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> Do you have any ideas how I can code this XSL more beautiful:
> 
> <xsl:if test="textNo = 'text-1'" >
>        <xsl:copy-of select="$text-1"/>
>  </xsl:if>
> 
> In other words: Is there a chance to use the <copy-of> 
> directly with the value of "textNo", without the <xsl:if> ?
> 
> Greetings,
> Christian
> 
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