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File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<eu>
 <member>
  <state>Austria</state>
  <state founding="yes">Belgium</state>
 </member>
 <candidate>
  <state>Bulgaria</state>
  <state>Cyprus</state>
  <state>Czech Republic</state>
 </candidate>
</eu>


File: Transform.xslt

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="xml" />

  <xsl:template match="eu">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="member" />
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="member">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="state[2]" />
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="state">
    <xsl:copy />
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:

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








5.66.select
5.66.1.select element by index
5.66.2.select value from attribute
5.66.3.select="@*|node()"
5.66.4.select="state[not(@founding)]"
5.66.5.select=count(document(other.xml)/eu/other/state)
5.66.6.select element by attribute value
5.66.7.Reference text after selecting tags and attributes
5.66.8.select element and attribute
5.66.9.match parent and select children
5.66.10.Match parent and select grand-children
5.66.11.Match a certain element
5.66.12.select attribute
5.66.13.Get value from an element with value-of and select
5.66.14.Select element out
5.66.15.select="operand[(. < 50) and (. > 30)]"
5.66.16.Selecting elements based on values of other ones.