I've been searching for a solution to what I thought was a simple
problem. Given the input XML:

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<forest>
<monkey name="Joe" />
<tree><monkey name="Sam" /></tree>
<tree><monkey name="George" /></tree>
<tree><monkey name="Frank" /></tree>
<tree><treehouse><monkey name="Phil" /></treehouse></tree>
<tree><monkey name="Hans" /></tree>
</forest>
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I want to get the name of the fifth monkey (Phil). I thought this would do it:

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<xsl:template match="forest">
<xsl:text>The fifth monkey's name is: </xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="//monkey[5]/@name"/>
</xsl:template>
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But this doesn't seem to work.

It does work fine if all the monkeys
are children of the root element, but I can't count on that always
being the case. Can anyone help me with my monkey trouble?

t:\ftemp>type mike.xml
<forest>
<monkey name="Joe" />
<tree><monkey name="Sam" /></tree>
<tree><monkey name="George" /></tree>
<tree><monkey name="Frank" /></tree>
<tree><treehouse><monkey name="Phil" /></treehouse></tree>
<tree><monkey name="Hans" /></tree>
</forest>

t:\ftemp>type mike.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="forest">
<xsl:text>The fifth monkey's name is: </xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="(//monkey)[5]/@name"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
t:\ftemp>xslt mike.xml mike.xsl con
The fifth monkey's name is: Phil
t:\ftemp>

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