XSLT, 2nd Edition

Element Nodes

Each element in the original XML document is represented by an element node. The expanded name of the element is its local name, combined with any namespace that is in effect for the element. You can access the different parts of the element name with the name(), local-name(), and namespace-uri() functions. Here is an element from an XML document:

<xyz:report xmlns:xyz="http://www.xyz.com/">

The values of the three functions for this element node are:

name()

xyz:report

local-name()

report

namespace-uri()

http://www.xyz.com/