xsl:apply-template and xsl:for-ech confusion

Hello guys,

thanks a lot for the great help you gave me with my previous problem,
hopefully this will be as simple to solve.
I have

<xsl:template match="tblMIM">
    <xsl:for-each select="tblMIMCompanies">
        <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="$searchby=0">
                <xsl:if test="tblMIMSubSectors[@subsectorID=$subsector]">
                    <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
                    ...
                </xsl:if>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:when test="$searchby=1">
                <xsl:if test="tblMIMSubSectors[@sectorID=$sector]">
                    <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
                    ...
                </xsl:if>
            </xsl:when>
        </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

i would like to change it to something like the code below, which doesn't
output anything. This way i don't need to repeat the inner most code since
its the same for each. any ideas?

<xsl:template match="tblMIM">
    <xsl:for-each select="tblMIMCompanies">
        <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="$searchby=0">
                <xsl:if test="tblMIMSubSectors[@subsectorID=$subsector]">
                    <xsl:apply templates select="tblMIMCompanies"/>
                </xsl:if>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:when test="$searchby=1">
                <xsl:if test="tblMIMSubSectors[@sectorID=$sector]">
                    <xsl:apply templates select="tblMIMCompanies"/>
                </xsl:if>
            </xsl:when>
        </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="tblMIMCompanies">
    <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
    ...
</xsl:template>

the xml looks like this

<tblMIM>
    <tblMIMCompanies name="A Ltd" ...>
        <tblMIMSubSectors subsectorID="55" sectorID="3"/>
    </tblMIMCompanies>
    <tblMIMCompanies name="Z Ltd" ...>
        <tblMIMSubSectors subsectorID="56" sectorID="3"/>
    </tblMIMCompanies>
</tblMim>


regards
Luke Ambrogio

p.s. thanks in advance