Re: Extracting element names for output

At 99/06/18 20:04 -0400, Vernon_Imrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Is there any support in XSL for extracting the NAME of the XML element (or
node)
>as the generated text rather than the value of the node? (For that matter,
how
>about extracting the names of all the element attributes; again, rather
than the
>value of the element attributes?)

The name of the node (be it an element node, attribute node, processing
instruction) can be accessed in a number of ways for different uses.  An
example below should illustrate everything you need.

I hope this helps.

......... Ken


T:\imrich>type test.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<test xmlns:crane="http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/">
  <crane:test1 attr1="attr">
    <!--a comment-->
    <test2 crane:attr2="attr"/>
  </crane:test1>
  <?pitest here?>
</test>
T:\imrich>type test.xsl
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0">

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:for-each select="//*|//@*|//pi()">

qname(.):      <xsl:value-of select="qname(.)"/>
local-part(.): <xsl:value-of select="local-part(.)"/>
prefix:        <xsl:value-of select="substring-before( qname(.), ':' )"/>
namespace(.):  <xsl:value-of select="namespace(.)"/>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

T:\imrich>call xsl test.xml test.xsl test.htm
T:\imrich>type test.htm


qname(.):      test
local-part(.): test
prefix:        
namespace(.):  

qname(.):      crane:test1
local-part(.): test1
prefix:        crane
namespace(.):  http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/

qname(.):      attr1
local-part(.): attr1
prefix:        
namespace(.):  

qname(.):      test2
local-part(.): test2
prefix:        
namespace(.):  

qname(.):      crane:attr2
local-part(.): attr2
prefix:        crane
namespace(.):  http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/

qname(.):      pitest
local-part(.): pitest
prefix:        
namespace(.):  
T:\imrich>

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