-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Flynn peter@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xsl-list-
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Sent: Friday, July 7, 2017 10:29 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Document processing order

> Am I right in deducing that your concern is that once the first set of
> child elements has been removed, the information necessary to locate the
> second set will no longer be present?

Yup.

> I don't think that is true for XSLT, as all the referenced location
> information is computed before processing starts, when all elements are
> still present.

In my case, the second template uses a traversal and it seems to fail
to locate the elements when I remove the related ones referenced in
the query.

thanks,
jlc