yes and  tried doing that with if's. i found some stuff in the archives
   about determining whether something is an element or an attribute at
   http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200212/msg00523.html and
   http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200212/msg00518.html

   <xsl:if test="../@*/.">
   <xsl:if test="../@*">
   count(. | ../@*) = count(../@*)

none of these seem to work very well.

It's not surprising they don't work ...

Ieven if you were using correct code to distinguish elements from
attributes ...

would be the wrong thing to do as even for attributes you need a /
between steps, so that should not be conditional, the only conditional
part needs to be whether to use a @ on the last step. But several full
solutions to this problem are in the archives and the faq.

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