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> I thought that the following XPath steps are equivanent: > > something[name()='lalala'] > something[self::lalala] > > However, it isn't so. No, over on xsl-list we regularly have to steer people towards using self:: (which is namespace-aware) rather than testing name() (which is not) so even for elemnets (when they may both work in some cases) self:: is preferable. For attributes (and other node types) self:: doesn't work at all as the principle node type is element, so @*[self::type] means select all attributes that are element nodes with name type, which is empty. This is unfortunate as it means in XSLT1 to say "all attributes except xlink:href" you are more or less led to use @*[not(name()='xlink:href')] which forces you to fix a prefix, or to use local-name() and namespace-uri and test the namepsace URI explictly) In Xpath2 you can say @* except @link:href which is a bit more readable, and safe for other prefixes. David
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