Hi Mark,

Below there is a sample stylesheet that processes the document once
with apply-templates and at the end with a for-each and outputs in both
cases the footnotes with alphabetic numbering using the xsl:number
instruction.

XML

<Data>
  <Country KEY="001">
    <Indicator KEY="001" FootnoteKEY="2" Footnote="Footnote2">
</Indicator>
    <Indicator KEY="002" FootnoteKEY="" Footnote=""> </Indicator>
    <Indicator KEY="003" FootnoteKEY="5" Footnote="Footnote5">
</Indicator>
    <Indicator KEY="004" FootnoteKEY="6" Footnote="Footnote6">
</Indicator>
    <Indicator KEY="005" FootnoteKEY="" Footnote=""> </Indicator>
  </Country>
</Data>

XSLT

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates/> At the end: <xsl:for-each
      select="/Data/Country/Indicator[@Footnote!='']"> [<xsl:number
        format="a" count="Indicator[@Footnote!='']"/> - <xsl:value-of
        select="@Footnote"/>] </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="Indicator[@Footnote!='']"> In processing:
      [<xsl:number format="a" count="Indicator[@Footnote!='']"/> -
      <xsl:value-of select="@Footnote"/>] </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output

    In processing: [a - Footnote2]
    In processing: [b - Footnote5]
    In processing: [c - Footnote6]


    At the end:
     [a - Footnote2]
     [b - Footnote5]
     [c - Footnote6]

Best Regards,
George
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