Hi,

I am just trying to make a comparison to
a number and it does not work

<xsl:when test="users/msgstatus/@emailtypeid[1]=5">

which should fail because when I do
<xsl:value-of select="users/msgstatus/@emailtypeid[1]" /><br />

it says

6

Given a set of values S, the XPath operator S=3 returns true if any value in the set is equal to 3. The xsl:value-of instruction (in XSLT 1.0) shows you the first value in S, ignoring the others.

I suspect you want

<xsl:when test="users/msgstatus[1]/@emailtypeid=5">

or perhaps

<xsl:when test="users[1]/msgstatus/@emailtypeid=5">

or perhaps


<xsl:when test="(users/msgstatus/@emailtypeid)[1]=5">

There's not much point using [1] on an attribute step because an element can only have one attribute with a given name.

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