[xsl] sum of products

["Steve Renshaw" <renshaw_steve at hotmail dot com>]

How do you write the xpath to calculate the sum or a*b for the
following xml limiting <data> items to those with a value of
say id="2". For the following xml:

<items>
<item>
  <data id="1"><a> 1</a><b> 2</b><c> 3</c></data>
  <data id="2"><a> 4</a><b> 5</b><c> 6</c></data>
  <data id="3"><a> 7</a><b> 8</b><c> 9</c></data>
</item>
<item>
  <data id="1"><a> 2</a><b> 3</b><c> 4</c></data>
  <data id="2"><a> 5</a><b> 6</b><c> 7</c></data>
  <data id="3"><a> 8</a><b> 9</b><c>10</c></data>
</item>
<item>
  <data id="1"><a> 3</a><b> 4</b><c> 5</c></data>
  <data id="2"><a> 6</a><b> 7</b><c> 8</c></data>
  <data id="3"><a> 9</a><b>10</b><c>11</c></data>
</item>
</items>

The sum I need calculated is:

         1st   2nd   3rd
         item  item  item
   Sum = 4*5 + 5*6 + 6*7


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