> I just noticed that in XT, position() behaves in this way:
as it should.


> then the xpath expression  "A/C[position()=2]"   selects the 3rd child
> of A, not the second one.

[ ...] applies to the current step so just C here.

If you want to select  C children that are the second child of A then

"A/*[position()=2 and self::C]

> (I mean, it requires an xsl:if test="name(*[position()=2])='C']"      )
name() isn't so safe, as it will be wrong if unexpected namespace
prefixes are used.

David


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