know if current() is a element or an attribute

Question

Working on an XSLT sheet, I end up in a template with some current() xpath. I would like to know if it refers to an attribute or to an element.

Actually, I do not manage to do what I want using the template filters select="./@*"or select="./*", because I want to get all the elements or attributes in one shot, and apply a different treatment depending on the type, in the same template.

Answer 1

It sounds rather as if you want to set up different templates for the different nodes with e.g. match="* and match="@*".

If you really want to check inside a template then you can use <xsl:if test="self::*"> to test whether it is an element node and in XSLT 2 and later also with <xsl:if test="self::attribute()"> whether it is an attribute. In XSLT/XPath 2 and later there is also the . instance of element() respectively . instance of attribute() test.