> here's a thing I was just wondered about, prompted by the RE:
>  Identity
> transformation (without using xsl:copy) thread, I know one
> could do this
> with substring-before, substring-after but is there another way?:

> <xsl:param name="name"
> select="concat(substring-before(name(),':'),local-name())"/>
> <xsl:element name="{$name}">

concat(substring-before(name(),':'),local-name())

will return the same value as

name()

There isn't a function to extract the prefix, because it's not usually
significant, but there is a function namespace-uri() to get the
corresponding namespace URI.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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