Please Help: XPath attribute values 1

[problematic329]

Is there a way to compare an attribute value to a variable? For example I have the path:

/employees/employee[@id='1']/name

But what if I do not know the value for the attribute id or want to change this by modifying a variable in javascript. I've tried:

var number = 1;

/employees/employee[@id=number]/name

This does not seem to work.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated!

 

[tsuji]

>var number = 1;
>/employees/employee[@id=number]/name
Construct the xpath string like this.
[tt]var number=1;
var sxpath;
sxpath="/employees/employee[@id='"+number+"']/name";[/tt]