Thank you. Your example got me where I needed to be. It's 
often the syntax that trips up beginners.

<xsl:if test="'Smith'=Form/Names/LastName">


On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 21:33:49 +0200
  Michael Ludwig <milu71@g...> wrote:
> Lee schrieb am 04.08.2009 um 14:13:12 (-0500):
>> 
>> I have a block of xml that looks like the following.
>> 
>>  <Form>
>>  <Names>
>>   <LastName>Jones</LastName>
>>   <LastName>Smith</LastName>
>>   <LastName>Anderson</LastName>
>>   </Names>
>>   </form>
> 
> Not well-formed :-)
> 
>> I need to display blocks of code only if text matches 
>>the 
>> text in any of the three nodes(or more) in LastName. So 
>> you may have a block of code that should display only if 
>> "Jones" is in the above nodes.
> 
> michael@wladimir:~/win-dev/XSLT :-) expand -t2 lee.xml
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <Form>
>  <Names>
>    <LastName>Jones</LastName>
>    <LastName>Smith</LastName>
>    <LastName>Anderson</LastName>
>  </Names>
> </Form>
> michael@wladimir:~/win-dev/XSLT :-) expand -t2 lee.xsl 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> 
>  <xsl:param name="in" select="'Jones'"/>
> 
>  <xsl:template match="Form">
>    <xsl:if test="$in = Names/LastName">
>      <Match><xsl:copy-of select="$in"/></Match>
>    </xsl:if>
>  </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> michael@wladimir:~/win-dev/XSLT :-) xsltproc lee.xsl 
>lee.xml
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <Match>Jones</Match>
> michael@wladimir:~/win-dev/XSLT :-) xsltproc 
>--stringparam in x lee.xsl lee.xml
> michael@wladimir:~/win-dev/XSLT :-) # no match, no 
>output
> 
> Michael Ludwig
> 
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