RE: Positional predicates in pattern matching

> To quote Michael Kay from the bottom of page 442 in the 2nd 
> edition of the 
> XSLT Programmers Reference,
>
> "If there are several predicates in the StepPatten, then 
> position() and last() 
> in predicates after the first apply to the nodes that 
> survived the previous 
> predicates"
Precisely. And if the predicate is [true()], then all the nodes are going to
survive it.

Michael Kay