Hi All,

  please bare with me I have been learning xls and xpath now for 5 days and 
have not got to gripps with all the lingo yet :)

    Bascially I have 2 templates one calling the other:

         <xsl:for-each select="hea/Batch/Rec[not(listID = 
preceding-sibling::Rec/listID)]">

         <xsl:call-template name="Batch">
            <xsl:with-param name="DataType" select="listID"/>
         </xsl:call-template>

      </xsl:for-each>

the above calls the template below:

<xsl:template name="Batch">
<xsl:param name="DataType"></xsl:param>



<table>
 <tr>
   <td colspan="2"><xsl:value-of select="$DataType"/></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>Daily report</td> 
  <td>Too Date Report</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>

    <table width="100%" border="1" cellPadding="2" cellSpacing="0" 
bordercolor="#333366" style="border-style=solid; border-width=1px; 
border-color=black;">
  
      <tr bgcolor="#00CCFF">
        <th align="left">Outcome</th>
        <th align="left">Description</th>
        <th align="left">Freq</th>
        <th align="left">%</th>
      </tr>

      <xsl:variable name="TFreq" select="sum(hea/Batch/Rec[sec='Daily' and 
listID = String($DataType)]/Freq)"/>

      <xsl:for-each select="hea/Batch/Rec[sec='Daily' and listID = 
$DataType]">

          <tr bgcolor="#CBFFA8">
            <td><xsl:value-of select="Outcome"/></td>
            <td><xsl:value-of select="Descript"/></td>
            <td><xsl:value-of select="Freq"/></td>
            <td><xsl:value-of select='format-number((Freq div $TFreq), 
"00.##%")'/></td>     
          </tr>

      </xsl:for-each>
      
      <tr bgcolor="#00CCFF">
        <td>Total</td>
        <td> </td>
        <td align="right" ><xsl:value-of select="$TFreq"/></td>
        <td>100.00%</td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </td>
 </tr>
</table>  

</xsl:template>


Ok My problem is I am passing a param that is equal to the value of an 
element ie CAP1.

I am then using this in the predicates is the form of <Element> = $Param.

$Param does work if its a literal string I am passing eg 'CAP1' but because 
I am just passing CAP1 it does not work. 

I have tried using concat to add the ' to the string before I pass it to the 
param and using it after the param is asined in predicate but nothing I try 
seams to work. 

I am sure this is a simple problem to solve as to me this is an obvious use 
of xsl.

please help I have googled my brains out with no luck


Thanks in advance Russ