> > I assume it does the former because every node is a child of the
> > parent node of the document. As such, there maybe isn't
> away around that?
>
> use the from attribute on xsl:number to limit how far up the
> tree it goes. (or use substring-after($n,'1.') if you prefer)

Perfect. Thanks, David (and everyone else that helped with this). I
think I'm getting the hang of XSL...

-Darrel