like this:

<xsl:for-each select="xpath expression">
<xsl:if test = ". = 'no value'" >
<option value="{.}" checked="'checked'">					<xsl:value-of select="." />
</option>								</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

<xsl:for-each select="xpath expression">
<xsl:if test = ". != $myvariable" >					<option value="{.}">
<xsl:value-of select="." />							</option>								</xsl:if>



Ah yeah, erm... I'm not sure why I did it like that before actually :\ 
Just tried it like this though:

<option>
    No Value
</option>

and it still doesn't work. I need some way of incorporating the blank 
value into the loop/if test without messing up the loop.

Anthony Jones wrote:
> "BL" <user@e...> wrote in message
> news:x50fh.508$FN2.306@f......
>> Hi, having a small problem with a combo box. I have a combo box which
>> gets values from an xml file and lets the user select one and submit it
>> via a form, I want the value they selected to be "remembered" in the
>> combo box when the page has refreshed.
>>
>> This was working fine
> 
> How did you get it working fine?
> 
> until I added a "blank" value as the first value
>> in my combo box. Now it won't remember the value they selected.
>>
>> The way I added the default value was by adding this (above my loop
>> which populates the values from the xml file into the combo box:
>>
>> <option value="{''}">
> 
> Are you sure you don't just need:-
> 
> <option>
> 
> What are you expecting value="{''}" to acheive?  It will resolve to value=""
> so what's the {''} doing?
> 
>>      No Value Selected
>> </option>
>>
>> Anyone got any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> B
>>
> 
>