Testing the name of parent node

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Subject: Testing the name of parent node
From: "Ragulf Pickaxe" <jawxml@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:58:13 +0000

Hello all,

I think this is trivial, but I can't seem to find how to do it:

I am in a node <a...> which can have any number of parents or childs of the same type. I want to know if the node I have in hand is the topmost <a...>.

If it was the attribute that had value a, I think the solution would be like <xsl:if test="../@attr='a'">

What do I have instead of @attr when I want to test the nodes name (is this called "basename").

I tried looking at the name() funktion, but the explanation was not very clear to me (Michael Kay's book, 2nd edition), and I don't know if this is the right track at all.

I really would appreciate some pointers.

Thank you
Ragulf Pickaxe :)

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Testing the name of parent node Ragulf Pickaxe - Fri, 20 Dec 2002 04:52:50 -0500 (EST) <= Joerg Heinicke - Fri, 20 Dec 2002 05:13:43 -0500 (EST) David Carlisle - Fri, 20 Dec 2002 05:15:31 -0500 (EST) Michael Kay - Fri, 20 Dec 2002 07:13:09 -0500 (EST) <Possible follow-ups> Ragulf Pickaxe - Fri, 20 Dec 2002 06:00:46 -0500 (EST)

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