You see an hour ago I wast quite content with my

<xsl:template match="RentAmount | MonthlyAmounts"> <xsl:attribute
name="class" select="'money'"/> <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

You shouldn't have been really as warnings about over-use of text() come
up fairly often:-)

This is why I don't like to post code, because all I really needed
from this thread was confirmation that duplicate elimination only
applied to node identity rather than content.

Meanwhile ...... if a comment node did infiltrate RentAmount/text()
what effect wolud that have with the match pattern and how
consistent would it be with the equivalent scenario outside a match
pattern.

  <xsl:template match="RentAmount/text() | MonthlyAmounts/text()">
    <xsl:value-of select="format-number(.,if (xs:decimal(.) > 999.99)
then '$,000.00' else '$0.00')"/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="RentAmount| MonthlyAmounts">
    <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:value-of select="format-number(.,if (xs:decimal(.) > 999.99)
then '$,000.00' else '$0.00')"/>
</xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

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