YES!!!! It worked! :)

I have been puzzling about this for a day, and I could not see the
problem. Thank you very much Michael.

I probably will encounter some other problems when processing about
650.000 XML files, but I will post a new message then. :)

Cheers!
jz


Michael Kay wrote:
> I suspect you want something like this:
> 
> <xsl:for-each select="//*[matches(., concat('\W', $term, '\W'), 'im')]">
>   <xsl:sort select="count(ancestor::node())" order="descending"/>
>   <xsl:if test="position()=1">
>     <path>/<xsl:value-of select="saxon:path()"/></path>
>   </xsl:if>
> </xsl:for-each>
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/