Thanks Dimitre, I implemented your solution - thanks for the info
Joe


"Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@y...> wrote in message 
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> "Joe Gass" <joe@n...> wrote in message 
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>> Thanks for that idea Dimitre, I worked it out another way.  I moved my 
>> workings to a new template, then...
>>
>> <xsl:choose>
>> <xsl:when test="$maxNodes!=''">
>>  <xsl:apply-templates select="/RESULTS/REVIEWS/REVIEW[position() &lt;= 
>> $maxNodes]"/>
>> </xsl:when>
>> <xsl:otherwise>
>>  <xsl:apply-templates select="/RESULTS/REVIEWS/REVIEW"/>
>> </xsl:otherwise>
>> </xsl:choose>
>>
>> I'll give your way a go too
>>
>> Many thanks
>
> Yes,
>
> The idea of conditionally processing one out of two node-sets is simple 
> and has a generic solution. The XPath expression to be used in the select 
> attribute of xsl:apply-templates, xsl:for-each or for whatever other 
> processing (e.g. as an argument to a function) is the following:
>
>          $ns1[$condition]   |   $ns2[not($condition)]
>
> where
>
>    $condition is the same in both predicates XPath expression.
>
> This is naturally generalised to a selection of one out of N node-sets 
> based on the outcome of N mutually exclusive events.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Dimitre Novatchev.
>