diff --git a/modules/sectioning.xml b/modules/sectioning.xml
index ce86fe8..752711e 100755
--- a/modules/sectioning.xml
+++ b/modules/sectioning.xml
@@ -57,8 +57,7 @@
 				Calculate the nesting depth up front, so that we can limit it to 2 for LaTeX. Note that we have to skip counting the parent <section> element, as that's the section currently being processed. Including it would produce a minimum depth of 1, but the minimum depth in LaTeX is actually 0.
 			-->
 			<xsl:variable name="depth">
-				<xsl:number value="count( ../ancestor::section )" />
-				<xsl:if test="count( ../ancestor::section ) gt 2">2</xsl:if>
+				<xsl:number value="min( ( count( ../ancestor::section ), 2 ) )" />
 			</xsl:variable>
 			<xsl:text>\</xsl:text>
 			<!-- Generate the correct number of "sub"s for LaTeX. -->
@@ -83,8 +82,7 @@
 				Calculate the nesting depth up front, so that we can limit it to 6 for HTML. Add 1 because <h1> is reserved for the main document title; section headings start at <h2>.
 			-->
 			<xsl:variable name="depth">
-				<xsl:number value="1 + count( ancestor::section )" />
-				<xsl:if test="1 + count( ancestor::section ) gt 6">6</xsl:if>
+				<xsl:number value="min( ( 1 + count( ancestor::section ), 6 ) )" />
 			</xsl:variable>
 			<!--
 				Generate the correct level of <Hn> element based on the value of $depth. Note the use of an attribute value template to force XSLT to interpret the contents of the name attribute as a function call rather than as the element name.