Use shapeid in a query?

[Eric Steele]

I see from the documentation that you can get the shape id by using [shpidx]
in a template file. It looks like it is basically just the row number in the
shapefile. My question is this: can I perform a query using the shapeid as a
queryitem and if so, how?
Thanks,
Eric

Eric M. Steele
Senior Research Technologist
Land Analysis Laboratory,
Penn State University
EricSteele at psu.edu
814-865-2307