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

Try:

    $myblahs[2]/yada


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev

<eric.goforth@g...> wrote in message 
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>
> 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
>