Conflicting Node Values

Although I've checked the archive, etc, haven't found answers to these
questions, so I hope they haven't been asked before!

I'm getting different node values from XT and MSXML3(May2000) and frankly,
don't understand the values I'm getting.

I have an instance which looks (in part) like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="opdocxt.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<IMPLEMENTATIONDOC>
<SUBSYSTEM>
<SUBSYSTEMNAME>INTEGRATION LAYER</SUBSYSTEMNAME>
<ALIAS>SEQUENCER</ALIAS>
<ALIAS>WATCHER</ALIAS>
<ALIAS>ABC</ALIAS>
<ALIAS>DEF</ALIAS>
...
</SUBSYSTEM>
</IMPLEMENTATIONDOC>


and a stylesheet which looks (in part) like this:

<xsl:template match="ALIAS">
	<xsl:if test="position()=1"><h5>ALIASES: </h5></xsl:if>
	<b><xsl:value-of select="."/></b>
</xsl:template>

because I want to put out the text "ALIASES: " for the first <ALIAS> that I
hit.


This didn't appear to work, so I included the line

<p>This is the node index: <xsl:number value="position()" format="(1)"/></p>

to see what the values were.

XT gave me the values 4,6,8,10, while MSXML3(May00) gave me 2,3,4, 5.

I tried

<xsl:if test="./child::ALIAS[4]"><h5>ALIASES: 0a</h5></xsl:if>

and got no results at all (i.e. I couldn't figure out what node values it
thought it had, but they didn't match the above.)

So my questions are:

1) Why are XT and MSXML3 giving me different results?

2) Why is it that "ALIAS[n]" doesn't work at all?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

John Creery
Open Text Corporation
3775 Richmond Road
Nepean, ON  K2H 5B7  Canada
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