> I have an XSL style sheet that counts all the footnotes in a document.
> I'm trying to modify this stylesheet to not increment the 
> count for duplicate footnotes and to not output a footnote 
> number with footnote text for the duplicate note. 

I'm not sure what you mean by "duplicate" footnotes, but elimination of
duplicates is just a special case of grouping, and I would have thought that
the standard grouping techniques (www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping) would
solve the problem.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/