> > Did you try Michael's latest suggestion of
> > 
> > count="db:footnote|db:citation[not(ancestor::db:footnote)]"
> > 
> > ?
> 
> Yes, but I got an undefined context error from Saxon, which has me a
> little confused 

Me too. Patterns don't depend on the context so I think that this change
wasn't responsible for that error.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/