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Message: [QUOTE="Joona I Palaste, post: 553055"] This should read: "/document/element[@name=$var]/text()" I missed the "at sign" from the original. NO, there are no quotes around $var. That is intentional. It's supposed to be the variable named var, not the literal string "$var". AFAIK, the string I wrote above *IS* a valid XPath string. The document at the W3C's home page says variable references are part of the XPath syntax. I already know how to search for literal strings, thanks very much. I wouldn't have asked "how can I resolve variables?" if all I ever had were literal strings. This is irrelevant to my question. -- /-- Joona Palaste (palaste@cc.helsinki.fi) ------------- Finland --------\ \-- [URL]http://www.helsinki.fi/~palaste[/URL] --------------------- rules! --------/ "I am not very happy acting pleased whenever prominent scientists overmagnify intellectual enlightenment." - Anon [/QUOTE]