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Re: How to get the name of the current element?

• From: Peter Armstrong <armstrong@e...>
• To: "Pierre, Sebastian" <spierre@R...>
• Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 22:53:39 +0000

> I'm looking for a way to set the name of the '.' element as the 'class' attribute of a <p> tag. I can't find any function that would return the name of the '.' element.
> 
> Is there any way to do this ?

try name(.)

if you want to put it in a variable, do

<xsl:variable name="foo" select="name(.)"/>

and then you could refer to it like so:

<p class="{$foo}">

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