Bob,



We need to know more....



At 01:31 PM 9/1/2006, you wrote:
I have (successfully!) pulled some content from an outside file (and
hidden it in the variable $matcher). I now want to look through my
input file to see if that content is in any <title> child, anywhere,
so I know if it's worth carrying on processing for this content. But

<xsl:if test="//title = $matcher">



doesn't work. What have I overlooked?

By "that content is in any title child, anywhere", do you mean the 
string value of $matcher equals the string value of any title? Your 
equality test should check that.



If you mean "the value of matcher is a substring of the value of any 
title anywhere", you'll have to be more creative:



if test="//title[contains(.,$matcher)]"



tests true if there exists any title node whose string value contains 
the string value of $matcher.



Remember that whitespace in your title values, or in $matcher, can 
throw this off too ... in which case the normalize-space() function 
comes to the rescue.



Ask again if this isn't enough to get you there.



Cheers,
Wendell