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File: Data.xml

<book>
  <chapter>
    <title>From Book I</title>
    <para>para1</para>
    <para>para2</para>
  </chapter>

  <afterword>
    <para>para 3</para>
  </afterword>
  <appendix>
    <title>Glossary</title>
    <para>A</para>
    <para>B</para>
  </appendix>

</book>
File: Transform.xslt

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  version="1.0">
  <xsl:output method="html" />


  <xsl:template match="chapter | appendix | afterword">
    <xsl:apply-templates />
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="*">
    <h1>
      <xsl:value-of select="name()" />
      ELEMENT UNACCOUNTED FOR BY STYLESHEET:
      <xsl:apply-templates />
    </h1>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="book">
    <html>
      <body>
        <xsl:apply-templates />
      </body>
    </html>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="title">
    <h1>
      <xsl:apply-templates />
    </h1>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="chapter/para">
    <paragraph>
      <font face="times">
        <xsl:apply-templates />
      </font>
    </p>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="appendix/para">
    <paragraph>
      <font face="arial">
        <xsl:apply-templates />
      </font>
    </p>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

<html>
   <body>
        
          
      <h1>From Book I</h1>
          
      <paragraph><font face="times">para1</font></p>
          
      <paragraph><font face="times">para2</font></p>
        
      
        
          
      <h1>para
               ELEMENT UNACCOUNTED FOR BY STYLESHEET:
               para 3
      </h1>
        
        
          
      <h1>Glossary</h1>
          
      <paragraph><font face="arial">A</font></p>
          
      <paragraph><font face="arial">B</font></p>
        
      
      
   </body>
</html>








5.62.name
5.62.1.name()- Takes zero or one node-set arguments and returns the name of the node in prefix:localpart format
5.62.2.name() function
5.62.3.get the name of currently selected element with name function
5.62.4.prints names of all elements used in the document
5.62.5.An example of use of function name()