[xsl] XPATH total count of multiple child nodes

["Edward Bryant" <bryant_edward@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks everyone for the helpful answers to my previous question on character 
entities.

My new problem is that I am trying to build a conditional statement based on 
a count of the number of child elements. There is an element "dates" that 
contains child elements containing particular dates. Normally, I would use 
something like:

Check if any of them exisit at all...

<xsl:if test="(filed) or (decided) or (submitted) or (revised) or (term)">

then, see if there is more than one of them ...

<xsl:if test="count(date) > 1">

However, the child elements do not all have the same name. They can have one 
of five different names (filed, decided, submitted, revised, or term), which 
may appear in almost any combination. There are no other child elements, so 
I was hoping there was a simple way to count the total number of child 
elements without specifying them by name?