[thelist] XSL: current node question

[Mike Migurski]

Hi all,

I'm in the process of learning XSL, and I'm running into a really silly
roadblock. It seems to me that this should be a very easy problem to
solve, yet I can find no mention of it in Bradley's XSL Companion.

OK, so here's the context:

I have an XML document with three different elements valid on a given
level, let's call them Anne, Betty, and Cindy:

	<root>
		<anne>
			...
		</anne>
		<betty>
			...
		</betty>
		<cindy>
			...
		</cindy>
	</root>

I want them all to be treated equally, by a template like the following:

	<xsl:template match="anne|betty|cindy">
		<div class="...">
			[more stuff in here]
		</div>
	</xsl:template>

what do I do if I want the class on that <div> to be anne, or betty, or
cindy, depending on the context? But still have it processed via one
template? I am currently doing this:

	<xsl:template match="anne">
	        <div class="anne">  
	                [more stuff in here]
	        </div>
	</xsl:template>

	<xsl:template match="betty">
	        <div class="betty">  
	                [more stuff in here]
	        </div>
	</xsl:template>

	<xsl:template match="cindy">
	        <div class="cindy">  
	                [more stuff in here]
	        </div>
	</xsl:template>

...but this seems like a back-asswards way of taking care of this.

any help would be appreciated,
-mike.


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