On Dec 12, 7:15 am, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> brc wrote:
> > I want to set the name of an element to the value of one of its child
> > elements (the 'name' element) in a XSL stylesheet.  See below.
>
> > <xsl:template match="ns:well">
> >       <xsl:element name="{?????}">
> >              <ns:name><xsl:value-of select="ns:name"/><ns:name>
> >              <ns:wellType><xsl:value-of select="ns:wellType"/>
> >               .
> >               .
> >               .
> >       </xsl:element>
> > </xsl:template>
>
> > So what do I need to substitute for the ????? so that the elements
> > name will be set to
> > the name of the "name" element it includes?
>
> There is a function named 'name' so
>    <xs:element name="{name(ns:name)}">
> might do what you want, on the other hand I am not sure why xsl:element
> is needed if you know the name you want.
>
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Actually I am looking fore the text value of the name element.  How
would I get that?