Re: defining nodes to apply template to

You are applying templates to all nodes, so you need a template 
<xsl:template match="blah"/>
that says to do nothing with blah elements that don't match your other
template.

Or simpler in this case just have a template matching blah that does teh
trannsformation you require, and only apply templates to the blah nodes
before stop, as I suggested earlier:


Date: 4 Aug 2005 17:08:35 +0100
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20050804154345.95728.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (message
	from ADAM PATRICK on Thu, 4 Aug 2005 16:43:45 +0100 (BST))
Subject: Re:  defining nodes to apply template to


<xsl:apply-templates select="blah[.='STOP']/preceding-sibling::blah"/>


David

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