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> You could do > >(selectively quoted:) > > <xsl:apply-templates mode="sec" > select="following-sibling::*[not(@name=$n)][1]"/> > </xsl:template> > > > <xsl:apply-templates > mode="elem" > select="following-sibling::*[position()=1 and (@name=$n)]"> > <xsl:with-param name="t" select="$t+@value"/> > </xsl:apply-templates> > <xsl:if test="not(following-sibling::*[position()=1 and (@name=$n)])"> > <total> > <xsl:value-of select="$t+@value"/> > </total> You could indeed. Only two problems: it's murder to write, and it's hard to optimise the implementation to run in linear time. The second is perhaps a bad reason for changing the language (SQL users just had to wait ten years while researchers came up with the optimisation techniques), but the first is a rather good one. Mike K XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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