I'm using XSLT 2.0,

following is my XSLT,

<xsl:for-each select="ServiceTemplate">
<xsl:apply-templates select="//ServiceRequestTemplate[@TemplateSet=text()]">
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:for-each>

I want to select nodes from the XML based on the the value of text() but the above transformation doesn't seem to work. Please help.

Thanks.

I can't really tell what you are trying to do so I can't correct your code but perhaps I can explain why it is obviously wrong. The expression

select="//ServiceRequestTemplate[@TemplateSet=text()]"

would only select elements like this:

<ServiceRequestTemplate TemplateSet="ABCDE">ABCDE</ServiceRequestTemplate>

that is elements whose content is equal to the value of their TemplateSet attribute. That would seem an unusual thing to want to do.

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

Sorry for the confusion, Here is my XML

<sm:Publish>
<sm:ServiceRequestTemplateSet>
<ServiceRequestTemplate>#f8M0KKVxWJiAhL2E</ServiceRequestTemplate>
</sm:ServiceRequestTemplateSet>

<sm:ServiceRequestTemplate TemplateSet="#f8M0KKVxWJiAhL2E">
</sm:ServiceRequestTemplate>
</smPublish>
This is my XSLT :

<xsl:template match="sm:ServiceRequestTemplateSet">
<xsl:for-each select="ServiceRequestTemplate">
<xsl:apply-templates select="//sm:ServiceRequestTemplate[@TemplateSet=text()]"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

so for a <sm:ServiceRequestTemplateSet>, I want to get the text() value of each <ServiceRequestTemplate> and select <sm:ServiceRequestTemplate> node which has attribute TemplateSet=text().

I'm not sure if i'm on the right track. I would appreciate your help. Thanks.

When you use text() within the predicate, it refers to the text() of the sm:ServiceRequestTemplate element that is the subject of the predicate, not the text() of the original ServiceRequestTemplate (confusing choice of names!)

Use current()/text(), or just current() (because the string value of the element is the same as the value of its text node).

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

Thanks for taking the time Michael, that was very helpful :)