Depending on how you're setting the variable, it may not be a node-set. See discussion of the EXSLT node-set function, which will convert it into the right form.
(The distinction between RTFs and node-sets will go away in XSLT 2.0.) ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more. "The world changed profoundly and unpredictably the day Tim Berners Lee got bitten by a radioactive spider." -- Rafe Culpin, in r.m.filk
