On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 13:06 +0530, Sridhar Pandurangiah wrote: > Hi > > I have the following statement that locates the node "membernumber" with > the value A192. This works perfectly fine. > > $v = $row->xpath('//membernumber[. = "A192"]'); > > But now I need to pass this value to XPath within a string variable say > > $v = $row->xpath('//membernumber[. = $MemberId]'); > > But this doesnt work due to the quotes. What I intend PHP to do is to > substitute the value for $MemberId and then execute the XPath query. I > have grappled with it for a few days before posting this. Any ideas are > most welcome > > Best regards > > Sridhar > Use double quotes instead, which should allow PHP to expand the variables. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk