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> I'm trying not to use keys Why? This is essentially what they are there for. <xsl:for-each select="//Artist[@festival = .]"> I'm guessing that the value of "." is lost because I'm beginning at the top of the document again. no, . inside a predicate always means the node to which the predicate is being applied, so the Artist node here, this is a general feature, not a result of the xpath starting with /. You probably want current(). But //Artist[@festival = anything] is _exactly what keys are designed to make efficient. use <xsl:for-each key select="key('f',.)"> where your key is <xsl:key match="Artist" use="@festival"/> This is simpler to write (no need for current() or //) and can be thousands of times faster when run on a large document. David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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