I, too had trouble understanding the requirement, but what caught my attention was the use of xsl:for-each. It looks (at first glance) like another mis-use of xsl:for-each where the correct approach would be to define two templates:

<xsl:template match="section[not(subsection)]">
 ...
</xsl:template>

and 

<xsl:template match="section[subsection]">
 ...
</xsl:template>

Then simply apply-templates.

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Charles Knell
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-----Original Message-----
From:     David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:33:05 +0100
To:       xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  Re:  listing elements & sub-elements in a seqence - skiping elemts if sub-elemts are present


  1) Whether the above code is correct or not, pls can forward me the
  syntax code equivalent to <for-each - //section[with no subsection] |
  //section/subsection..>

I didn't follow the rest of your problem statement, but if you put in
the obvious missing syntax bits like ="..." then essentially what you
write is legal Xpath to select the elements that you want.


<xsl:for-each select="//section[not(subsection]|//section/subsection"