Figured out how to do it.  Dimitre's suggestion made me think a little harder 
and I came up with this.

<xsl:for-each select="class[grade=concat($grade, '*') or grade=$grade]">

"Dennis Owen" wrote:

> That works fine unless someone enters a 1, then they get all 1, 10, 11, etc. 
> I'll have to check the data to see if that is possible.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> "Dimitre Novatchev" wrote:
> 
> > 
> > "Dennis Owen" <DennisOwen@d...> wrote in message 
> > news:8C13BD5C-3F7E-4339-8044-091E7FA5607C@m......
> > >I have a production xsl file that I need to edit to change the selection
> > > behavior on one of the fields.  The user can search on a grade like "17" 
> > > and
> > > the xsl returns all nodes with grades = 17.  What I need is for the xsl to
> > > return all the "17" and "17*" grades when 17 is entered by the user.
> > >
> > > The current code is like
> > >
> > > <xsl:for-each select="class[grade=$grade]">
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > Use:
> > 
> >    class[starts-with(grade, $grade)]
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Dimitre Novatchev 
> > 
> > 
> >