I have a placeholder page in Umbraco that renders Biographies. The placeholder page gets a node id from a query string and then renders the data for each bio. The issue is that I have a breadcrumb navigation, so on the placeholder page it looks like this: (biography is the placeholder page)

Our Team : Partners : Biography

What I want it to look like is this:

Our Team : Partners : person's name

so, in my XSLT I getting a nodeId from a query string using:

  <xsl:variable name="bioNodeId" select="umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('Id')"/>

with that I am trying to get the node using:

  <xsl:variable name="bioNode" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($bioNodeId)/node"/>

once I have the node I should be able to access the EmployeeFirstName property on it.

here is my select, which isn't returning anything...
<xsl:value-of select="$bioNode/data[@alias='EmployeeFirstName']"/>

so my question is how to i access the properties of node that I am trying to get using my querystring?

I should be able to get the XML for the node using GetXMLNodeById, but how do I find the EmployeeFirstName property within that?

Hope this all makes sense, thanks for the help :)               

here is the full XSLT:

  <xsl:variable name="minLevel" select="0"/>
  <!-- get the query string with the biography node id -->
  <xsl:variable name="bioNodeId" select="umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('Id')"/>
  <xsl:variable name="bioNode" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($bioNodeId)/node"/>
  <!-- Input the documenttype you want here -->
 
 
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:if test="$currentPage/@level &gt; $minLevel">
      <ul class="breadCrumbNav">
        <li>
          <a href="/">Home</a>
        </li>
        <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor::* [@level &gt; $minLevel and @nodeName != 'Home']">
          <li> :
            <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
              <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
            </a>
          </li>
        </xsl:for-each>
        <!-- print currentpage -->
          <li> :
            <a href="" class="currentBread">
              <!-- when on a biography page show the employee's name -->
              <!-- string($currentPage/data [@alias='PageHeader']) -->
                <xsl:choose>
                  <xsl:when test="$currentPage/@nodeName = 'Biography'">
                 
                      <xsl:value-of select="$bioNode/data[@alias='EmployeeFirstName']"/>
                 
                  </xsl:when>
                  <xsl:otherwise>
                    <xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/@nodeName"/>
                  </xsl:otherwise>
                </xsl:choose>
            </a>
          </li>
      </ul>
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:template>