> <xsl:when test="$x/.. = $y">

If you use that test instead of count() or generate-id() based test
then you are not testing if x and y are related you are testing if any
relatives of x have the same character data as the character data of y.

= in XPath tests the string-value of its arguments.

So this doesn't meet your initial requirement statement at all.

David

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