> I want to differentiate between the first five <faq>s and the 
> rest so I can
> add appropriate formatting to distinguish between two groups 
> of questions on
> a web page (recent and previous).

Can you use something like 

<xsl:if test="count(//@id[. &gt current()/@id]) &lt; 5)">

Mike Kay

> 

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