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Re: Getting Attribute names in an XML with XSLT stylesheet
- From: Jeni Tennison <jeni at jenitennison dot com>
- To: "Morgan Nagarajan" <takkals at hotmail dot com>
- Cc: XSL-List at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 09:53:58 +0100
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Getting Attribute names in an XML with XSLT stylesheet
- Organization: Jeni Tennison Consulting Ltd
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Hi Morgan,
> Is there any provisions to explicitly display the attribute name of
> an XML element. It's easy to get an attribute value (knowing or w/o
> knowing attribute name) but I could not find any easy way to get the
> name of an attribute (FYI, I don't know attribute name existing in a
> XML element, beforehand)
You can get the name of any node (including attributes) using the
name() function. Pass the node as the argument to the name() function,
or don't pass any arguments if you want to use the context node:
<xsl:template match="@*">
<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
</xsl:template>
Cheers,
Jeni
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