RE: I mean self::* doesn't select attributes :(

Okay, so I didn't need that correction; the principal node type holds for
*any* name test.

Removing unneeded complexity from my previous examples, I now have the
following approaches to testing whether the attribute context node's name is
a particular namespaced name:

@*[local-name()='foo' namespace-uri()='&xyzURI;']
@*[generate-id()=generate-id(../@xyz:foo)]
@*[count(.|../@xyz:foo)=count(../@xyz:foo)]  (Thanks Ken)

The first is definitely the most intuitive, though it's still messy in that
it requires you to explicitly include the namespace URI, regardless of
whether a corresponding prefix binding is in scope.

What I naturally tried was:

@*[self::xyz:foo]

But that doesn't work, because the self axis will *never* select attributes
except with self::node(), being that *element* is the principal node type of
the self axis and there is no attribute() node test (not that that would be
useful).

Evan Lenz
XYZFind Corp.


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