Peter Flynn wrote:
> eric.goforth@g... wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there any way to directly access an element in a nodeset?
> >
> > For example, if working with:
> >
> > <blahs rec_count="16">
> >    <blah>
> >        <yada>abc</yada>
> >     </blah>
> >    <blah>
> >        <yada>123</yada>
> >     </blah>
> >    <blah>
> >        <yada>xyz</yada>
> >     </blah>
> > </blahs>
> >
> > For instance, I could specify something like blahs/blah[2]/yada and get
> > the value of "123"?
>
> Yes, exactly that. In XSLT, for example, you would write
>
> <xsl:value-of select="blahs/blah[2]/yada"/>
>
> But this doesn't have anything to do with nodesets.
> It's just an XPath statement referencing an element.
>

Peter,

Hmmm, well the situation in a little more detail is that I'm passing in
this nodeset, I believe that's the right word, in a parameter.

So my entire XML document looks more like:

<mydoc>
<mystuff>
<blahs rec_count="3">
   <blah>
       <yada>abc</yada>
    </blah>
   <blah>
       <yada>123</yada>
    </blah>
   <blah>
       <yada>xyz</yada>
    </blah>
</blahs>
</mystuff>
</mydoc>

I'm passing the blahs to a template as a parameter like so:


<xsl:apply-templates select="somestuff">
<xsl:with-param name="myblahs"
select="/mydoc/mystuff/blahs"></xsl:with-param>
</xsl:apply-templates>


Then in my template it looks something like:

<xsl:template match="somestuff">

<xsl:param name="myblahs"/>

... Do some stuff...

</xsl:template >

So debugging the transformation of the somestuff template in XMLSpy">XMLSpy,
if I look at $myblahs in the XPath-Watch, I see NodeSet[1].  If I click
on the NodeSet[1] beside the $myblahs in the XPath-Watch I see blahs
with a rec_count="3", so my data made it inside the somestuff template.

However, if I do a <xsl:value-of select="$myblahs/blah[2]/yada"/>

I get an Error: Invalid XPath.

Thanks,
Eric