John Townsend wrote:

>         <xtags:forEach select = "//person[child::name[contains(text(),
> '$param')]]">
>
> [...]
>
>
>
> Select = "//person[child::name[contains(text(), 'John')]]"
>
> Then it works. But, I would like to pass in the 'John' parameter from
> the URL. The URL would look something like this:
>
> http://localhost:8080/myapp/mypage.jsp?param=John
>
> Can I do this? I thought if I put $param in my select statement it would
> work, but it didn't seem to work.

I see you're putting the $param inside quotes. Try it without the string
delimiters:

<xtags:forEach select = "//person[child::name[contains(text(),$param)]]">

  James

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