Markus Abt wrote:

> Put the variable and the <xsl:if> inside the <xsl:for-each> loop to get only the
> wanted entries:

Yes, this does the trick.
 
> Further, you can eleminate the variable and maybe also the <xsl:if>, simply write:
> 
>  <xsl:for-each select="hbuddhism/entry[translate(dateofentry, '-', '') &lt; $thismonth]">
>   <xsl:sort select="lastname"/>

But this is even better, because, as you say, it resolves the next
problem I was going to have to deal with -- making sure the numbering
was being done on the output data only as opposed to the entire data set:

> In this case, however, the selected entries are numbered 1, 2, 3, ... by the position()
> function, since only the selected ones are looped through the <xsl:for-each>.
> In the first case above, all entries are looped through and numbered with their
> position, and then only the ones with the right date are outputted, so numbers
> look like 2, 5, 6, 8, ..., for example.

Thank you!

Chuck

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