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value-of select="person[position()=3]/name"


File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<emailList>
  <head:header xmlns:head="http://www.domain.com/namespace/header">
    <title>Email List</title>
    <maintainer>Joe</maintainer>
  </head:header>
  <person type="personal" id="p001">
    <name>person1</name>
    <email>p@hotmail.com</email>
  </person>
  <person type="work" id="p002">
    <name>person2</name>
    <email>p@hotmail.com</email>
  </person>
  <person type="personal" id="p003">
    <name>person3</name>
    <email>p3@hotmail.com</email>
  </person>
</emailList>

File: Transform.xslt
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:head="http://www.domain.com/namespace/header">
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="emailList" />
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="emailList">
    <xsl:value-of select="person[position()=3]/name" />
  </xsl:template>


</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>person3








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