Hi Oliver,

> I have an attribute base="ns:type" and want to get the local name of
> the value, i.e. "type" in this case. Obviously this is the substring
> after ':'. If there is base="type" then it is the whole string.
>
> A single XPath expression for this could be
>
> concat(substring(substring-after(@base,':'), 
>                  1 div contains(@base,':')),
>        substring(@base, 
>                  1 div not(contains(@base,':'))))
>
> Does anybody know a shorter XPath 1.0 solution? (I need this as an
> expression for xsl:key)

It's not much shorter, but you could use:

  substring(@base,
            string-length(substring-before(@base, ':')) + 1 +
            contains(@base, ':'))

or:

  substring(translate(@base, ':', ''),
            string-length(substring-before(@base, ':')) + 1)

or, if you're using MSXML4:

  msxsl:local-name(@base)

I'm sure that if David C. were around he'd come up with something...
  
Cheers,

Jeni

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