For me, it's a bug...

The XPath spec says !

> 4.1 Node Set Functions
> 
>  Function: number last() 
> 
>  The last function returns a number equal to the context size 
>  from the expression evaluation context.

and also gives the following examples :

> para[last()] selects the last para child of the context node

Note that this doesn't seem to be related to the usage of the last()
function and that 

<xsl:template match="/nodes/node[3]">
  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

gives exactly the same result.

Eric
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