> > .... do some processing > Why do you have the single quotes around $slide? I think you want something like: .... do some processing If understand what you are trying to do: a b c d e and: slide: and do from the command line: testo test\test -param slide-number 3 I get: slide: c But I would think this would be easier, if I understand what you want to do, by doing simply: slide: -scott Stefano Mazzocchi To: Cocoon he.org> Subject: Found Xalan Problem and new Cocoon feature 03/03/00 09:35 PM I just fixed concurrency Xalan problem in Cocoon. It was my fault since I was sharing the same processor between threads. I should be fixed now. I also managed to passed param requests to Xalan as stylesheet parameters so, in something like this works index.xml?param=hello .... ----------- so far so good ------------- But there's a problem and I'm not sure if this is a Xalan bug or my wrong understandings of the xSLT spec. I'm doing my apachecon presentation and I would like to do something like this: slides.xml?slide=5 then in an xml file such as ... ... ... ... ... and a stylesheet like .... do some processing to print just the exact slide. But the above doesn't work... even if does output the requested slide number. Is this a Xalan bug???? Please answer quickly because if this is, I'll have to find a different media to do my presentation :( -- Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche -------------------------------------------------------------------- Come to the first official Apache Software Foundation Conference! ------------------------- http://ApacheCon.Com ---------------------