Question

What I am trying to do is use XSL to output all unique element and attribute names. Not their values, but their names.

So given an XML of:

<item id="12">
  <price>12.00</price>
  <author>Name</author>
  <desc>Description</desc>
</item>

I want to show that there are elements of item,price,author,desc. In addition to that I want to know there is an attribute of ‘id’.

Any ideas on how to do this? Or articles I can read about it? Is it even possible?

Thanks,
Levi

Answer 1

I haven’t used them a lot myself, but these functions should get you there: XPath functions on nodes. More specifically, look at name() and local-name(). Since they work on nodes, there should be no problem using them on elements as well as attributes.