actually i want to concat some string value....
i'm doing this...but it is not correct for<>..how to add it??
<xsl:variable name ="val" select ="'<br>'+string($names)+'<br>'"/>

suppose after the ading i want to pass it in a js method waht will be the syntax to pass it? i can't put $val directly....then how i will pass the value...itself

<input type="button" value="More..." ONCLICK="showText('ONCLEARDETAILS', 'ON-CLEAR-DETAILS: TriggerText',[u]value of variable val</u> "/>


thnx...

XSLT takes a tree as input and produces a tree as output. To write an element node to the output you need to use an instuction such as xs:element. You can't write markup like <br> to the output because the output is not lexical XML or HTML, it is a tree of nodes.

If you want to add the string value of a variable to a text node in the result tree, use the xsl:value-of instruction.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

thnx u i got it.....