The code you've shown us looks fine to me. Need to see the evidence that it
isn't working: a complete stylesheet, a source document, and the output.

Incidentally, a "//" at the start of a pattern doesn't do anything useful,
and is best avoided. In 2.0 it adds processing cost because the processor
has to check that the element is part of a document, which it almost
invariably is.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Stippler [mailto:stip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 29 January 2006 15:05
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  attribute-match
> 
> I want to handle several XML-documents based on an attribute value.  
> The following does not work:
> Having a XML document like that:
> 
> <AllNews>
>      <News termin="20060121">
>        ...
>     </News>
>      <News>
>        ...
>      </News>
> </AllNews>
> 
> and two templates like that:
> 
> <xsl:template match="//*[not(@termin)]">
>          bla
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="News[@termin]">
>          blub
> </xsl:template>
> 
> I would expect the first to match News-nodes without the attribute,  
> the second to match News-nodes
> having the attribute, but the results are not like this. What's wrong?
> 
> Best regards,
> 	Alex