> <element name="substring-after(local-name(),'element.')">
> if of course you always have children with element in their local-name.

otherwise you can try using just "." instead of "element." in
substring-after() method

----- Original Message -----
From: "bryan" <bry@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:50 AM
Subject: RE:  Element value


>
> Magyary Endre wrote:
> >I need to transform an element value to an attribute value:
> >input:
> ><element>
> ><element.name>hello</element.name>
> ></element>
> >output:
> ><element name="hello"/>
> >I have no idea ho to refer the element's value in an xsl:template
> >Thank you, Endre
>
>
> can also try the following:
>
> <xsl:template match="element/*">
> <element name="substring-after(local-name(),'element.')">
> <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> </element>
> </xsl:template>
>
> if of course you always have children with element in their local-name.
>
>
>  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
>

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