Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
> > 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
> news:1159822124.780628.81270@b......
> >
> > 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
> >

I've figured out how to do get it to work.  <xsl:value-of
select="$myblahs/blah[2]/yada"/> is working for me now, I think that I
must have had a type in there.

The only problem I'm having now is figuring out how to make the "2"
variable.

For instance:

 <xsl:value-of
select="$myblahs/blah[/xpath1/xpath2/someintegervalue]/yada"/>

-Eric