>When I'm processing an element
>user, server or pass, how can I
>test the tag name against a string?
>
>current tag name = 'pass' ?!?!
>

local-name()='pass' 
is the safest way.

name() will also work given your example, but be aware that name()
includes any namespace present by way of adding a prefix, and there
can be cases where this prefix isn't the one used in the input
document.  In other words if your input document had <x:name/> then
name() might legally return 'y:name' if y mapped to the same namespace
URI as x.  If you have Mike Kays book, this is explained in the
'Usage' bit of the name() function.

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