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Re: Knowing node name in order to test
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Knowing node name in order to test
- From: tcn at melvaig dot co dot uk (Trevor Nash)
- Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 09:14:24 GMT
- Organization: Melvaig Software Engineering Limited
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>When I'm processing an element
>user, server or pass, how can I
>test the tag name against a string?
>
>current tag name = 'pass' ?!?!
>
local-name()='pass'
is the safest way.
name() will also work given your example, but be aware that name()
includes any namespace present by way of adding a prefix, and there
can be cases where this prefix isn't the one used in the input
document. In other words if your input document had <x:name/> then
name() might legally return 'y:name' if y mapped to the same namespace
URI as x. If you have Mike Kays book, this is explained in the
'Usage' bit of the name() function.
Regards,
Trevor Nash
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