You're forgetting that a path expression starting with "/" or "//" selects
within the document that contains the context node - which in this case is
the document constructed by the str:tokenize template. You need to create a
global variable say <xsl:variable name="root" select="/"/> and then select
relative to that: select="$root//city[text() = $ns/token/text()]".

Or better, 

$root//city[. = $ns/token]"

You don't want to access the text nodes explicitly because comments or
processing instructions would stop your code working.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwiswell [mailto:vwiswell@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 28 March 2008 19:59
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  using str:tokenize named template results
> 
> The str:tokenize template works beautifully (I am required to 
> use xslt 1.0). I am using it to split the input from a 
> multiple select box submitted from an html page thusly:
> 
>        <xsl:variable name="inValues">
>          <xsl:call-template name="str:tokenize">
>             <xsl:with-param name="string" select="$input" />
>          </xsl:call-template>
>       </xsl:variable>
> 
> I want to loop through the tokens checking for matches in my 
> main input, an xml file. So I need nested for-each loops, the 
> outer one looping through my tokens from str:tokenize and the 
> inner one looping through <city>s in my doc.
> 
> The xml looks like this:
> 
> <sites>
>    <site>
>      <city>A City</city>
>      <institution>Axxxxx Univ.</institution>
>      <administers>to any student</administers>
>      <schedule>2 times per month</schedule>
>      <additional_costs>$15 admin. fee</additional_costs>
>      <contact_information>(123) 123-1234</contact_information>
>    </site>
>    <site>
>      <city>B City</city>
>      <institution>Bxxxx College</institution>
>      <administers/>
>      <schedule/>
>      <additional_costs/>
>      <contact_information/>
>    </site>
>    <site>
>      <city>C City</city>
>      <institution>Cxxxxx College</institution>
>      <administers>to any student</administers>
>      <schedule>1 time per month</schedule>
>      <additional_costs>$10 refundable deposit</additional_costs>
>      <contact_information>(123) 123-1234</contact_information>
>    </site>
>    ...
> </sites>
> 
> I'm not getting any output, so I think I have context issues, 
> but I'm not sure how to fix it. I don't really understand the 
> relationship between the str:tokenize results and my xml doc. 
> It seems analogous to multiple input xml docs, but I'm not 
> sure how to code it. This is what I have tried:
> 
> <xsl:template name="buildTable">
>    <xsl:param name="tokens"/>
>    <xsl:variable name="ns" select="msxsl:node-set($tokens)"/>
>    <xsl:for-each select="$ns/token">
>      <xsl:value-of select="text()" /><br /><!-- this works 
> and proves the tokens are as expected -->
>         <xsl:for-each select="//city[text() = $ns/token/text()]">
>          <xsl:sort select="city"/>
>          <xsl:value-of select="text()" /><br /><!-- this 
> produces no output -->
>       </xsl:for-each>
>    </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> If I remove the token (outer) for-each, I get output, but 
> only for the first token (obviously). The tokens get passed 
> to this template just fine.
> 
> I'd really appreciate a nudge in the right direction. Thanks.