> I'm trying to find a way of saying 'output the third paragraph after the
> heading containing the text "foo"' -- to no avail.

you said thord but your example was to output the second.

<xsl:apply-templates select="h1[.='Best Section']/following-sibling::p[2]"/>

will do the trick if you are on tge parent of the h1 elements.

David


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