How does one use XSLT to output the name of an element or an attribute?
Created May 4, 2012
Peter Ciuffetti What you need is something like this:
<xsl:template match="root">
<result>
<xsl:for-each select="*">
<xsl:element name="{local-name(@*)}">
<xsl:attribute name="{local-name()}">
<xsl:value-of select="@*"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:for-each>
</result>
</xsl:template>
This uses the local-name() function of XPATH to obtain the name of the element and the name of the first attribute in that element.
It will transform:
<root> <a b="c"/> <d e="f"/> <g h="i"/> </root>Into...
<result> <e d="f"></e> <h g="i"></h> </result>Note: When you pass local-name a node set (like @*), it returns only the name of the first node in document order. So you can't use this trick to obtain the name of a second or subsequent attribute.
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