> However, I have found that this is not the case -- XT/SAXON seem to
> to think that the text() following-siblings are not actually siblings.

It's difficult to tell without a clear example of your XSL, but perhaps
you are using '*' to select the children; that would not select text()
nodes.  Use select="*|text()" instead.

Alternatively (or also), are there whitespace-only text nodes getting in
there to confuse your count?  If so, can you fix things up with
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>?

 Steve


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