[xsl] Testing the name of parent node

["Ragulf Pickaxe" <jawxml@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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