My XML document has an <airport> element:

<airport>
     <a>blah</a>
    <b>
       <c>blah</c>
    </b>
    ...
</airport>

I want the first 10 leaf elements within the <airport> element (<a>, <c>,

I thought this XPath would do the job:

<xsl:for-each select="airport//*[not(child::*)][position() le 10]">

But that XPath does not return the first 10 leaf elements. It returns over

What is that XPath expression saying? Clearly it is saying something

I think I found the correct XPath expression:

<xsl:for-each select="(airport//*[not(child::*)])[position() le 10]">

Do you agree that that XPath expression will select the first 10 leaf

An easy to make mistake with positional predicates and // in your
initial attempt but you corrected it well.