Alexey Solofnenko blog

I have had a problem that Google did not have an answer for - how to search for an attribute value, if the attribute name is not case sensitive? Usually the situation arises when the original file is not case sensitive (for example, HTML files are not). In my situation the XML was processed by another code that treated it in a case-insensitive way. Surprisingly the only good answer in Google I got that XML is case sensitive and live with it. After reading that I was about to replace one search with two searches using two different cases that can actually happen in my files, but decided to look further, if it is a possible to write a condition with a node name. Of cause there was - name() function returns the current node name and it can be tested. Surprise, surprise, the query did not work at first - I used '=='instead of '=', but eventually I got it right. This is it:

/Path/To/element/@*[translate(name(), 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')='UPPERCASE_ATTR_NAME']