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    <p><strong>I would use keys -- both for convenience and efficiency</strong>:</p> <pre><code>key('kPlaysByAuthor', 'Shakespeare, William') </code></pre> <p><strong>To select just the <code>playcode</code>:</strong></p> <pre><code>key('kPlaysByAuthor', 'Shakespeare, William')/playcode </code></pre> <p><strong>Here is a complete example</strong>:</p> <pre><code>&lt;xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&gt; &lt;xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/&gt; &lt;xsl:strip-space elements="*"/&gt; &lt;xsl:key name="kPlaysByAuthor" match="edition" use="metadataBlock/meta[@name='Creator']/@content"/&gt; &lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt; &lt;xsl:copy-of select= "key('kPlaysByAuthor', 'Shakespeare, William')/playcode"/&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; &lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>when this transformation is applied on the following XML document:</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;works&gt; &lt;editions&gt; &lt;edition&gt; &lt;playtitle&gt;Henry IV, Part 1&lt;/playtitle&gt; &lt;playcode&gt;1H4&lt;/playcode&gt; &lt;genre&gt;play&lt;/genre&gt; &lt;metadataBlock&gt; &lt;meta content="Shakespeare, William" name="Creator"/&gt; &lt;/metadataBlock&gt; &lt;/edition&gt; &lt;edition&gt; &lt;playtitle&gt;Some Title&lt;/playtitle&gt; &lt;playcode&gt;XYZ&lt;/playcode&gt; &lt;genre&gt;play&lt;/genre&gt; &lt;metadataBlock&gt; &lt;meta content="Someone, Else" name="Creator"/&gt; &lt;/metadataBlock&gt; &lt;/edition&gt; &lt;/editions&gt; &lt;/works&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>the wanted, correct result is produced</strong>:</p> <pre><code>&lt;playcode&gt;1H4&lt;/playcode&gt; </code></pre>
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