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I did it.
(I couldn't get the other examples to work for me)

This Applescript applies a character style to the contents of an XML element and displays a statistics window on completion:

tell application "InDesign 2.0.2"
	set theDocument to active document

	tell theDocument
		set theTag to "Body_Text_Bold" --Sets the tag containing text to be formatted
		set theStyle to character style "Body_Text_Bold" -- Character style to apply
		set parentTag to "Body_Text" -- The tag in question is 2 levels deep - this is it's parent

		set numberDone to 0

		tell XML Element parentTag
			repeat with myCounter from 1 to (count XML Elements)
				set myXMLElement to XML Element myCounter
				if name of markup tag of myXMLElement is theTag then
					set applied character style of contents of XML Element myCounter to theStyle
					set numberDone to numberDone + 1
				end if
			end repeat
			display dialog "Number of XML elements in " & parentTag & ": " & (count XML Elements) & return & "Number of elements styled: " & numberDone
		end tell

	end tell
end tell