hello every one
i got an xml doc and in it i got a refernece to an answer
e.g:
<response_label ident="CE296EA2163111D8C6E4DBF3F4597FC1"
rarea="Ellipse" rrange="Exact" shuffle="Yes">
how can i refernce that Ident in the following code
using xsl sheet:
<Question number="" options="" ref="I WANTED TO BE DISPLAYED HERE">
in general how can i reference an xml elemet in xsl sheet using ("")
in help please

Do you want to store the path to the response? If so you could have Two things, this is an inefficient path, as are most starting with //. If I knew the structure of the document more precisely then I could suggest a better one. Secondly you won't be able to use this string to access the element unless you are using a processor such as Saxon that has extensions for this; XPath does not allow for dynamic evaluation of strings as paths.

Instead you could just store the ident in the ref attribute and use the path assuming the context node at that point is the Question element.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

@Joe
thanks for answering i'm using xmlspy2005 enterprise evaluation copy
i think i figured it out with the following xsl code
    <xsl:attribute name="number">
                      <xsl:value-of select="number(position())" />
                      </xsl:attribute>
                     <xsl:attribute name="options">
                  <xsl:value-of select=" count(./presentation/flow/flow/response_lid/render_choice/flow_label/response_label/flow_mat/material/mat_extension/mat_formattedtext)" />
                      </xsl:attribute>
                   <xsl:attribute name="ref">
                      <xsl:value-of select="./resprocessing/respcondition/conditionvar" />
                              </xsl:attribute>
it was a matter of xpath as u said
thanx once more for ur guidance