apply-templates select question

["Hunter, David" <dhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a [hopefully] simple question, regarding the apply-templates element.
Consider the following snippet of XML, and the XSL after it:

XML:

<TheRestOfTheDocument>
  <Features>
    <Count>2</Count>
    <ID Description="c">1256</ID>
    <ID Description="A">1892</ID>
  </Features>
</TheRestOfTheDocument>

XSL:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl";>
  <xsl:template>
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | * | text()"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="/TheRestOfTheDocument/Features">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="Count"/>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="ID" order-by="+@Description"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

As you can see, what I want to do is sort the "ID" elements by their
"Description" attribute.  However, I also need to include that "Count"
attribute, so I need a separate apply-templates just for it.

My question is, can I create an apply-templates that will copy everything
EXCEPT the "ID" attributes?  So instead of 

<xsl:apply-templates select="Count"/>

I want something similar to

<xsl:apply-templates select="not(ID)"/>

(which, obviously, doesn't work.  At least, not with the IE5 XSL processor.)

The reason for this is that I'm sorting various sections of a very large
document, with a lot of similar scenarios, except that some of them might be
set up more like this:

<Blah>
	<something1/>
	<something2/>
	<.../>
	<somethingn/>
	<ID Description="c">1</ID>
	<ID Description="A">2</ID>
</Blah>

and I don't want to have to do a separate apply-templates for each
"something".

As I mentioned, I'm using the IE5 XSL processor, if it makes a difference.
Following are some of the misguided syntaxes I tried to use, none of which
worked:

select="not(ID)"
select="[not(ID)]"
select="[* && not(ID)]"
select="[* $and$ not(ID)]"

Thanks in advance for any light you can shed.

David Hunter
david.hunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
MediaServ Information Architects
http://www.MediaServ.com


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