exists() is an xpath 2 function  and you are using an xslt 1 system so
it will not work.

However it's (almost) a purely cosmetic function.

test="not(exists(b/c))"

is xpath2 but it means exactly the same thing as

test="not(b/c)"

which would work on an xslt1 system.

David

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