>    I have a couple of questions on XSL stylesheets. 
> 1)<xsl:template match="MEMBER">
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="NAME"/>
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="Phone[@type='work']"/> 
> </xsl:template>
> 
> When u say <xsl:apply-templates select="NAME"/>, Will all the 
> NAME nodes 
> under MEMBER be selected(say there are more than 1 NAME nodes under 
> MEMBER)?Also will the NAME template rule be applied to each 
> one of the NAME 
> nodes before the Phone node is selected?

yes, and yes.
> 
> 2)
> <xsl:variable name='signers' select=/legal_authenticator/person'/>
> 	<xsl:if test='$signers'>
> .....
> .....
> </xsl:if>
> 
> What is the xsl:if tag doing here? Is it testing whether 
> /legal_authenticator/person' exists??

Yes. The value of a variable is a node-set; when used as a test in an
xsl:if, it is converted to a boolean. An empty node-set is treated as
false, a non-empty node-set as true.
> 
> 3)<person_name>
>           <nm>
>             <GIV V="Henry"/>
>             <FAM V="Levin"/>
>            </nm>
>           <person_name.type_cd V="L" S="2d"/>
>         </person_name>
> 
> For the above xml, I see the following in the stylesheet 
> <xsl:apply-templates 
> select='person_name[person_name.type_cd/@V="L"]'/>
> What do the [] mean?? Why can't I just have / instead of the []??
> 

before you go any further, I think you need to get yourself a book or an
online reference for the language. Asking questions on this list is a
way to solve any problems you have, it's not the way to find out basic
facts about the language.

[] is a predicate: it filters a node-set according to a boolean
condition.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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