There's no function to do this: it's a deliberate omission, because the
designers wanted to encourage you instead to test 

$x instance of TYPE

which means your code isn't dependent on implementation details, for example
your code shouldn't be affected if a function decides to return an
unsignedByte when you were expecting an integer. Also, not all types have
names.

However, for diagnostic purposes, Saxon has an extension function
saxon:type-annotation(node)

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florent Georges [mailto:fgeorges.spam@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 01 November 2005 20:38
> To: XSL List
> Subject:  [XPath-2.0] Get the name of type of a node
> 
>   Hi
> 
>   Do you know if it's possible to get the name of the type of an
> element, with XPath 2.0?  Say I want to display the type of the 'elem'
> elements.  What can I use in the '@select' of the following
> 'xsl:value-of'?
> 
>     <xsl:template match="elem">
>       <xsl:text>name: 'elem', type: '</xsl:text>
>       <xsl:value-of select="type-name(type-of(.))"/>
>       <xsl:text>'&#10;</xsl:text>
>     </xsl:template>
> 
>   Thanks,
> 
> --drkm