Example 3 of <xsl:attribute> 

This example shows the use of <xsl:attribute name="{name()}"/>.

XML File (attribute.xml)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="attribute.xsl"?>
<root>
   <bar>bar1</bar>
   <bar>bar2</bar>
   <bar>bar3</bar>
   <bar>bar4</bar>
   <bar>bar5</bar>
</root>

XSLT File (attribute.xsl)

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

<xsl:template match="//bar">
   <xsl:element name="myElement">
      <xsl:attribute name="{name()}">
         <xsl:value-of select="."/>
      </xsl:attribute>
   </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Output

There is no formatted output. This is the processor output:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<myElement bar="bar1" />

<myElement bar="bar2" />

...

<myElement bar="bar5" />