> In the documents I am using I know that there are no 
> inputform elements
> inside other inputform elements, so all input elements have only one
> inputform ancestor. Therefore, for each input node the node-sets
> ancestor::inputform and current()/ancestor::inputform each 
> contain only one
> node. 

that's OK then. I misremembered your problem.

Mike K

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