>I think, in english, I want to say "grab every menuItem that has a
>pageID of 938 or is a child of a menuItem with a pageID of 938"

which is the  xpath I posted previously isn't it?

<xsl:variable name="$pageID" select="938"/>

	<xsl:for-each select="//menuItem[pageID = 
 $pageID]/descendant-or-self::menuItem"> 

David