<xsl:template match="a/b">
  <xsl:message> b found </xsl:message>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="a/b/c"/>

Your b element does not have a child called a, so select="a/b/c" starting at
b will select nothing. You want select="c".

And you don't need match="a/b", match="b" will do fine. You only need
match="a/b" if you want to distinguish <b> elements that are children of an
<a> from those that aren't.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dunk, Michael (Mike) [mailto:mikedunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 25 September 2007 11:12
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> Subject:  Built in templates and issues getting the XSLT 
> processor to navigate an input document