Hi there,

In order to understand how axes work, I decided to create attributes in each of my various templates that displays the name of the current node the XSLT is processing and which nodes are its parent, siblings etc. Below is an example of the template

<xsl:template match="LoanPurpose/LendingPurposeCode">
        <LendingPurposeCode>
            <xsl:attribute name="CurrentNode"><xsl:value-of select="current()"/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="ParentNode"><xsl:value-of select="parent::node()"/></xsl:attribute>

            <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>

I am not sure if the above makes any sense but what I trying to find out is whenever I call a particular template, I want to know how to rerieve data from the various axes.

When I run the above example, I get blank in the attributes. However, when I use name() instead of current() for <xsl:attribute name="CurrentNode">, I get the current element name that the XSLT is processing but what about retrieving its parent element name?

thanks

xsl:value of, when applied to a node, displays the string value of the node. To display the name of the node, use the name() function.

name() or name(.) displays the name of the current node

name(..) displays the name of the parent of the current node.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference