The newbie is back at the fountain of knowledge - I thought I had this,
first part was too easy, but......

Maybe I'm learning how to post hereto. My data looks like:

<dsQueryResponse>
     <Rows>
       <Row AuditName="Cashbox II" State="ActionPlan" category="a" />
       <Row AuditName="SNP" State="ActionPlan" category="a" />
       <Row AuditName="Cashbox II" State="InReview" category="a" />
       <Row AuditName="SNP" State="ActionPlan" category="b" />
     </Rows>
  </dsQueryResponse>

My current xslt follows with ### indicating experimental lines that do not
work, and ??? indicating questions on specific lines.

<xsl:key name="audits" match="Row" use="@AuditName" />
<xsl:template match="/dsQueryResponse/Rows">
  <table>
    <tr><th>AUDIT</th><th># Rows</th>
    	<th># ActionPlan</th><th># InReview</th>
    	<th># FollowUp</th><th># Closed</th>
    </tr>
    <xsl:apply-templates
      select="*[@AuditName and
                generate-id(.)=generate-id(key('audits', @AuditName))]" />
??? why didn't this need a [1] near end to get first occurance ???
  </table>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*[@AuditName]">
  <xsl:variable name="findings" select=key('audits', @AuditName)/>
 intention was to get sub-set of rows for 1 audit into a variable
  <tr>
    <td><xsl:value-of select="@AuditName" /></td>
    <td><xsl:value-of select="count(key('audits', @AuditName))" /></td>
### this works ###
    <td><xsl:value-of select="count($findings[@State='ActionPlan'])" /></td>
### above line does not work, was meant to go with  above. ###
    <td><xsl:value-of select="count(key('audits', @State['InReview']))"
/></td>
### this states what I am trying to do, but I know syntax is wrong ###
### cannot select on the 2D list returned by key ###
      </tr>
</xsl:template>


Output would be like:

Audit  # Rows  ActionPlan  InReview ..........
CashboxII 2      1           1
SPN       2      2           0

Dick Penny