Re: Hot to get names ??

Why not something like:

<xsl:template match="product/*[starts-with(local-name(), 'udt')]">
  UDT Value: <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

Or

<xsl:template match="product">
  Some stuff.
  <xsl:apply-templates select="*[starts-with(local-name(), 'udt')]"/>
  Some more stuff.
</xsl:template>


Alternatively, if you just wanted to get elements between last-modified and 
start-date regardless of whether they actually have names that start with 
'udt', you could replace the appropriate part of the XPath expression with 
something like this:

*[preceding-sibling::last-modified and following-sibling::start-date]


I used local-name() instead of name() since if your elements have a namespace 
and prefix, then the prefix would likely screw up the test, but it shouldn't 
matter if used with the example you gave.

On Tuesday 26 February 2002 10:39, Khalid wrote:
> Hello All,
> How do I get the names of each element and then do some processing
> accordingly,I can't seem to find a way to use name() appropriately,any help
> is appreciated,
>
> below is the chunk of xml that I am using,I want to be  able to get all the
> elements which are after last-modified and before start-date,so I would
> like to get some condition that checks for the elements names that begin
> with 'udt',but there are other elements attached to this element and the
> have the same structure,and what I want is only get the values at each
> level from between the last-modified and start-date.
>
> <product>
>     <system-id>4</system-id>
>     <last-modified>22 January, 2002 09:26</last-modified>
>     <udt-product-id>DMD</udt-product-id>
>     <udt-product-name>Daily Mail Monday to Friday</udt-product-name>
>     <start-date>7 January, 2002</start-date>
>     <end-date />
>     <publishing-frequency>Weekly</publishing-frequency>
>     <editions>
>       <edition>
>         <system-id>71</system-id>
>         <last-modified>22 January, 2002 09:21</last-modified>
>         <udt-product-code>DMD</udt-product-code>
>         <udt-edition-name>Anglia1</udt-edition-name>
>         <udt-print-centre-code>HQP</udt-print-centre-code>
>         <udt-descriptor>Edition</udt-descriptor>
>         <start-date>8 January, 2002</start-date>
>         <end-date />
>
> </editions>
> </produict>
> </products>
> in the above example the tree contains multiple subroot elements that has
> the same structure as product.I need to get only the elements which start
> with udt at each level.,say first I would like to get all the elements that
> start-with 'udt' from the product level,at this point I do not want to get
> any element which may appear at lower level of heirarchy such as editions.I
> would only want edition related values on descretion.
> please guide,thanks
>
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