Is there an XSLT name-of element

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In XSLT there is the   lt xsl value-of select  expression   gt    to get the value of an element  but is there something to select the tag-name of the element   In a situation like this    lt person gt     lt  -- required stuff -- gt     lt name gt Robert lt  name gt     lt  -- optional stuff  free form for future extension          Using XMLSchema s xsd any -- gt     lt profession gt programmer lt  profession gt     lt hobby gt photography lt  hobby gt   lt  person gt    lt xsl for-each select  person  gt      lt xsl tag-of select      gt     lt xsl value-of select      gt   lt  xsl for-each gt    To get output like this    name   Robert profession   programmer hobby   photography    Of course the above XSLT won t compile because    lt xsl tag-of select  expression   gt    doesn t exist  But how could this be done

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Nobody did point the subtle difference in the semantics of the functions name   and local-name      name someNode  returns the full name of the node  and that includes the prefix and colon in case the node is an element or an attribute  local-name someNode  returns only the local name of the node  and that doesn t include the prefix and colon in case the node is an element or an attribute    Therefore  in situations where a name may belong to two different namespaces  one must use the name   function in order for these names to be still distinguished   And  BTW  it is possible to specify both functions without any argument   name    is an abbreviation for name     local-name   is an abbreviation for local-name     Finally  do remember that not only elements and attributes have names  these two functions can also be used on PIs and on these they are identical

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lt xsl value-of select  name       gt     lt xsl value-of select      gt

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This will give you the current element name  tag name    lt xsl value-of select   name      gt    OP-Edit  This will also do the trick    lt xsl value-of select   local-name     gt

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lt xsl for-each select  person  gt     lt xsl for-each select     gt       lt xsl value-of select  local-name     gt     lt xsl value-of select      gt     lt  xsl for-each gt     lt  xsl for-each gt

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For those interested  there is no     lt xsl tag-of select      gt    However you can re-create the tag element by going    lt xsl element name   local-name     gt     lt xsl value-of select  substring   1 3    gt   lt  xsl element gt    This is useful in an xslt template that for example handles formatting data values for lots of different elements  When you don t know the name of the element being worked on and you can still output the same element  and modify the value if need be

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