Christopher R. Maden wrote:

  Hi,

> <xsl:if test="position() = 1">
>   <xsl:attribute name="initial-page-number">1</xsl:attribute>
> </xsl:if>

> Easy!

  But we haven't seen how the template rule is applied.  So
depending on this and on the real input format, maybe he would
need instead:

    <xsl:if test="empty(preceding-sibling::lang)">
       ...

  But that's hard to tell with the excerpts we got so far.

  Regards,

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