RE: [xsl] Getting name of and element

Subject: RE: [xsl] Getting name of and element
From: "Chris Bayes" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:27:48 -0000
Pickaxe,
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<test att1="" att2="" att3="">
</test>	

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
	<xsl:output method = "html" encoding="Windows-1252" />
	
	<xsl:template match="/*">	
		<html>
			<head></head>
			<body>My top level element is <xsl:value-of
select="name()" /><br/>
				  It's attributes are <xsl:for-each
select="@*">
				  	<xsl:value-of select="name()" />
				  </xsl:for-each>
			</body>
		</html>
	</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Ciao Chris

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Ragulf Pickaxe
> Sent: 16 November 2001 10:54
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Getting name of and element
> 
> 
> Well, I now have a different problem, being that I don't get 
> the expected 
> attribute at all (see mails about getting attribute from 
> root-node). Is 
> there a way for me to get the _name_ of the root-element?
> 
> That is, I need the name of the node, not what it contains:
> XML:
> ..
> <TopmostNodeWithANameThatIDoNotKnow>Has not the attribute 
> that I am trying 
> to extract</TopmostNodeWithANameThatIDoNotKnow>
> ..
> 
> I want the name so that I can see where things goes wrong - I 
> expect that we 
> try to put the attribute into a differently named node (which 
> does not give 
> an error, unfortunately).
> 
> If I can just put the name into a variable, I can then print 
> out the name of 
> the value. Incidently, how do you get the names of the 
> attributes that a 
> given node has, if possible?
> 
> Hope you can help me
> (With help, I mean "Yes, this can be done and you do 
> this...", not "No way 
> of doing what you want" ;-)
> 
> Sincerly
> Ragulf Pickaxe :)
> 
> 
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