gplott@y... wrote:
> //viewentry[ (entrydata[@name='CourseOrMeetingName'][text='Course
> ABC']) and (entrydata[@name='StartDate'][datetime='20070110'])]"

Works just fine when I try it on your sample fragment, using Xalan:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
	<xsl:template match="/">
	  <xsl:copy-of select="//viewentry[ 
(entrydata[@name='CourseOrMeetingName'][text='Course ABC']) and 
(entrydata[@name='StartDate'][datetime='20070110'])]"/>
	</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output is
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><viewentry position="1" 
unid="E5FE575692CAB4CD852572140052F751" noteid="893A" siblings="24">
<entrydata columnnumber="0" name="CourseOrMeetingName">
<text>Course ABC</text></entrydata>
<entrydata columnnumber="1" name="StartDate">
<datetime>20070110</datetime></entrydata>
<entrydata columnnumber="2" name="City">
<text>West chester</text></entrydata>
<entrydata columnnumber="3" name="FirstName">
<text>Joe</text></entrydata>
<entrydata columnnumber="4" name="MiddleName">
<text/></entrydata>
<entrydata columnnumber="5" name="LastName">
<text>Blow</text></entrydata>
</viewentry>

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