> <xsl:template name="pages">
 >  <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="pages"/>
 > </xsl:template>
 >
 > <xsl:template name="start" mode="pages"
 >               match="*[/main/template/@name='start']">
 >
 > <xsl:template name="query" mode="pages"
 >               match="*[/main/template/@name='query']">

Ok, this now makes sense to me. "mode" is to call only templates with the same mode as in apply-templates, isn't it?

Grtz,
Geert