> I know we can get the local name of an element with the 
> local-name() function, and the namespace-uri with the 
> namespace-uri() function, however, given the namespace uri, 
> is there a way I could find out the namespace prefix used for 
> a particular element? ie, say I know that the namespace uri 
> for a particular element or set of elements is 
> "http://purl.org/atom/ns#", is there a way to > pick up the 
> namespace prefix used on those elements? Thanks, Munna

Yes,

 <xsl:value-of select="substring-before(name(),':')"/>


cheers
andrew

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