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 Just reading the XPath docs wrong, that's all. // is equivalent to /descendant-or-self::node()/ - note the leading and trailing slashes. You could try ..//.[generate-id(.) = $node] I tried you suggestion, but it doesn't seem to work, at least in XT. Plus, can you explain the siginificance of the slashes, for curiosity's sake: I get that the leading '/' selects the document root (which is why you need to say './/' rather than just '//' for the context node's parent; the '//' includes a built-in '/' in front of descendant-or-self.) But I don't see the significance of the trailing slash. Surely this just acts to select all the children of nodes matching descendant-or-self, thus providing the same effect as descendant? Why is this behaviour appropriate to '//'? Can I just take this as meaning 'descendant', (but selecting all descendant nodes and NOT self at all)? Regards, Ben. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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