> Unless I'm missing something, this solution fails to satisfy
> the question.

yeah I missed this as well, although it only needed slight modification
to work:

a[b and count(b|c|d) = count(*)]

in the end though Ive gone with Jeni's method as it better suits the
data I have, but Oleg's answer was the one (I thought) I was looking
for.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yates, Danny (ANTS) [mailto:danny.yates@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 21 October 2002 14:33
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE:  optional children
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Unless I'm missing something, this solution fails to satisfy
> the question.
> 
> Surely this would also match
> 
> <a>
>   <c/>
> </a>
> 
> Or similar? i.e. it doesn't enforce the requirement that there
> must be a <b> element?
> 
> Dan.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oleg Tkachenko [mailto:olegt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 21 October 2002 12:47
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  optional children
> 
> 
> Andrew Welch wrote:
> 
> > I want to output  if and only if element  has child *, with
> > optional children  and .
> > *
> 
> What about
> <xsl:template match="a[count(b|c|d) = count(*)]">
> 	<foo/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> -- 
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