RE: Finding out if the current node is an attribute no

Does "self::*@" work?

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> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Adrian
> Grigore
> Sent: Monday, 2 June 2003 09:00
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> Subject:  Finding out if the current node is an attribute node
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently working with xsl-metaprogramming (an xsl template is 
> compiling another language into xsl) and need to generate a 
> template that 
> behaves differently when it's current node is an attribute 
> node than when 
> it's current node is any other kind of node.
> 
> In other words, I am looking for an easy way to check within the 
> template  example if the template's match attribute is something like
> 
> /somenode/@id
> 
> in which case it matched an attribute node or something like
> 
> /somenode/somechildnode
> 
> in which case it matched a element node. It's easy to find 
> out about text 
> and comment nodes, but there seems to be no function for this 
> in order to 
> distinguish between element and attribute nodes. I could 
> write a an xsl 
> helper template that analyzes the matched string, but that 
> would take a few 
> hours. For example an xpath expression like this makes it 
> tricky to find 
> out if you matched an attribute or an element node:
> 
> /addresses[@id='2']/someaddress/phone/@type[../@test='somevalue']
> 
> in this case the @type attribute node is the current node, so 
> it is an 
> attribute. But in this case
> 
> /addresses[@id='2']/someaddress/phone/@type[../@test='somevalue']/..
> 
> it would be an element! So the easiest approach I have found 
> so far is to 
> look for the last @... string that is not surrounded by [] 
> brackets, but it 
> takes a lot of xslt code to find it..
> 
> So, is there any simple way to do this? Maybe I overlooked 
> something obvious?
> 
> 
> There is certainly no other way for me to implement this, I 
> looked for 
> another way for many hours already. Any help would be greatly 
> appreciated! :-)
> 
> Thanks in advance for your time,
> 
> Adrian Grigore
> 
> Adrian Grigore
> 
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