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 I've got a node set that's selected by an ugly, gnarly Xpath expression... let's call that the "outer" node set. Those nodes, in turn, contain the nodes that I need to transform let's call those the "inner" node set. Everything else is to be filtered out of my transformation. I don't want to have to repeat the hairy Xpath expression in the template that matches the "inner" nodes, so I used a mode that lets me match these nodes just by their name. The mode keeps the template from being applied to nodes that would otherwise match, i.e. nodes outside the "outer" nodes. For example (XHTML): <xsl:template match="really-hair-xpath-expresssion"> <!-- outer --> . . <xsl:apply-templates select="li" mode="process" /> <!-- inner --> . . </xsl:template> <!-- inner --> <xsl:template match="li" mode="process"> . . </xsl:template> Once again, the idea here is to avoid having to write the second template with match="really-hairy-xpath-expression/li" I get the feeling that this situation must come up all the time, but... (a) This is the first time I recall having to solve this problem, and (b) I haven't seen it mentioned as a typical application in explanations of moded templates. All that makes me feel like I'm missing something, or like I've solved this before in some different way. Is there a "right way" to do this? Is this a normal use for moded templates? Thanks, mark 
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