as the archives  of this list will show you most weeks,

	<xsl:template match="//menu">

matches exactly the same elements as

	<xsl:template match="menu">

  blabla only appears 3 times, corresponding to the /menus/menu. Why this isn't
  giving the same 8 results?

On its own it will give no results at all. It just says use this
template if you apply nodes to a node that matches "menu" (note that a
match attribute takes a pattern not an XPath expression.) So it depends
on how often you call xsl:apply-templates with a select attribute
that selects these nodes.

David

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