RE: Getting the value of the tag itself.

 Simon Kelly]
> I know haow to get all the relevent information from a node, but I am
> struggling to remeber how to get the nodes name itself.  IE 
> if I have a node
> called <table name="table1"> how do I print out it's name 
> table, and not the
> @name table1??
<xsl:value-of select='name()'>

or if namespaces are in play, you may want 

<xsl:value-of select='local-name()'>

Cheers,

Tom P

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