> Sorry I was a bit unclear.

ah the second version was clearer but still...

 want to generate the following template match rule for an XPATH pointing to a element

<xsl:template match="//tagname">
	<TagOperation>

Note that prefixing a match expression with // never does anything
except perhaps change the default priority. match="//tagname"
matches the same elements as match="tagname"
and
<xsl:template match="@attributename">
matches the same attributes as <xsl:template match="//@attributename">

Going back to your first message..

<xsl:template match="//tagname">
	<xsl:choose>
		<xsl:when test=" current() = some sort of test  "><!--
	if it points to element -->

in this case the template only matches elements.

If you really want a template that matches both elements and attributes
you need to do something like

<xsl:template match="tagname|@tagname">
Then you can tell if you have an element or an attribute by
<xsl:if test="self::*">which is true just on element nodes

but this is a rather strange thing to do as 999 times out of 1000 you
always know in a template what kind of node is being matched.

David

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