> That means each <view>-element can contain an undefined 
> number of other <view>s. What I want to know is whether the 
> parent of a <view> - if it is also the view - is the last one.

By "the last one" I assume you mean that it has no following siblings?

Then you want:

<xsl:if test="parent::view[not(following-sibling::view)]">

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