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RE: detecting attribute node type
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] detecting attribute node type
- From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 12:45:15 +0100
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> Is there an efficient way to detect by XPath expression (not
> by a pattern) that current node is an attribute node ?
It's surprisingly difficult.
If you only want to distinguish it from element nodes, you can do
<xsl:if test="not(namespace::*)">
since an element always has at least one namespace node, and an attribute
never has any.
Mike Kay
Software AG
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