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> <xsl:variable name="first" select="John"/> That declares $first to be the node set matching the pattern John and you haven't got any elements <John> so this is the empty node set and this coerces to the empty string. <xsl:variable name="first" select="'John'"/> ^ ^ makes $first the string John. David XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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