XSLT 1.0 - Unexpected token '{' in the expression. -->{<-- name(.)}

Question

Given the input file shown below, the first code example works, and the second code example fails with error:

Unexpected token '{' in the expression. -->{<-- name(.)}

The main difference is whether I put the {name(.)} in a name attribute or a select attribute. I need to generate the data like the second code to match my OAGIS ProcessShipment schema.

<xsl:for-each select="//s0:B2">
       <xsl:for-each select="./*">
            <xsl:if test=".">
                <xsl:element name="{name(.)}" > 
                   <xsl:value-of select="." /> 
                </xsl:element> 
            </xsl:if>

       </xsl:for-each> 
</xsl:for-each>

The code that fails:

<xsl:for-each select="//s0:B2">
       <xsl:for-each select="./*">
            <xsl:if test=".">
                <xsl:element name="ID" xmlns="http://www.openapplications.org/oagis/10">
                    <xsl:attribute name="typeCode">
                        <xsl:value-of select="{name(.)}" />
                    </xsl:attribute>
                    <xsl:value-of select="." /> 
                </xsl:element>
            </xsl:if>
       </xsl:for-each> 
</xsl:for-each>

Desired Output:

  <ID typeCode="B202>ABCD</ID>
  <ID typeCode="B204>0080082626</ID>
  <ID typeCode="B206>PP</ID>

Input data:

<ns0:X12_00401_204 xmlns:ns0="http://example.com/X12/204">
    <ST>
        <ST01>204</ST01>
        <ST02>0001</ST02>
    </ST>
    <ns0:B2>
        <B202>ABCD</B202>
        <B204>0080082626</B204>
        <B206>PP</B206>
    </ns0:B2>
</ns0:X12>

Reference: How to select each child node of a parent in a for-each xslt statement?

Answer 1

By trial and error I got this to work:

<xsl:value-of select="name(.)" />

Just removed the curly braces, which tell it to run what is inside as braces as xpath. I'm still a little fuzzy why it is needed in the name= though.