you want to select all control elements that have an item1 and item2
child, so that's

<xsl:for-each select="/tree/controls/control[item1 and item2]">
  <xsl:value-of select="item1/data"/>
  <xsl:value-of select="item2/data"/>
</xsl:for-each>

David

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