I have some xslt - see below

<xsl:variable name="totalcount">
      <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="$currentPage/@parentID = '1066'">          
          <xsl:value-of select="count($currentPage/node [string(data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1'])"/>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
          <!--this is being called from the events by country page, count all the matching events for that country-->         
          <xsl:value-of select="99" />
        </xsl:otherwise>        
      </xsl:choose>      
    </xsl:variable>

    xx<xsl:value-of select="$totalcount"/>xx

If the parent id is 1066 this returns the number of nodes below that page.

If the parent id is not 1066 it should return the number 99.

But for some reason it only ever returns "0", and i'm damned if I can see why.

what have I missed?