> Well I need to test all the secur.classif attributes on the entire 
> document that's why I went that route.

in that case // is OK, but don't put the tests based on //@secur.classif
in a template for anything other than the root node. It is pointless
doing it multiple times, as it willalways give the same resut.

Most likely you'd want to do it in a variable at the top level.

David


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