title: How do I get an attribute value when using XSLT with unknown namespace?
body: <p>I am receiving a 3rd party feed of which I cannot be certain of the namespace so I am currently having to use the local-name() function in my XSLT to get the element values. However I need to get an attribute from one such element and I don't know how to do this when the namespaces are unknown (hence need for local-name() function).</p>
  
  <p>N.B. I am using .net 2.0 to process the XSLT</p>
  
  <p>Here is a sample of the XML:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"&gt;
     &lt;id&gt;some id&lt;/id&gt;
     &lt;title&gt;some title&lt;/title&gt;
     &lt;updated&gt;2008-09-11T15:53:31+01:00&lt;/updated&gt;
     &lt;link rel="self" href="http://www.somefeedurl.co.uk" /&gt;
     &lt;author&gt;
        &lt;name&gt;some author&lt;/name&gt;
        &lt;uri&gt;http://someuri.co.uk&lt;/uri&gt;
     &lt;/author&gt;
     &lt;generator uri="http://aardvarkmedia.co.uk/"&gt;AardvarkMedia script&lt;/generator&gt;
     &lt;entry&gt;
        &lt;id&gt;http://soemaddress.co.uk/branded3/80406&lt;/id&gt;
        &lt;title type="html"&gt;My Ttile&lt;/title&gt;
        &lt;link rel="alternate" href="http://www.someurl.co.uk" /&gt;
        &lt;updated&gt;2008-02-13T00:00:00+01:00&lt;/updated&gt;
        &lt;published&gt;2002-09-11T14:16:20+01:00&lt;/published&gt;
        &lt;category term="mycategorytext" label="restaurant"&gt;Test&lt;/category&gt;
        &lt;content type="xhtml"&gt;
           &lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
              &lt;div class="vcard"&gt;
                 &lt;p class="fn org"&gt;some title&lt;/p&gt;
                 &lt;p class="adr"&gt;
                    &lt;abbr class="type" title="POSTAL" /&gt;
                    &lt;span class="street-address"&gt;54 Some Street&lt;/span&gt;
                    ,
                    &lt;span class="locality" /&gt;
                    ,
                    &lt;span class="country-name"&gt;UK&lt;/span&gt;
                 &lt;/p&gt;
                 &lt;p class="tel"&gt;
                    &lt;span class="value"&gt;0123456789&lt;/span&gt;
                 &lt;/p&gt;
                 &lt;div class="geo"&gt;
                    &lt;span class="latitude"&gt;51.99999&lt;/span&gt;
                    ,
                    &lt;span class="longitude"&gt;-0.123456&lt;/span&gt;
                 &lt;/div&gt;
                 &lt;p class="note"&gt;
                    &lt;span class="type"&gt;Review&lt;/span&gt;
                    &lt;span class="value"&gt;Some content&lt;/span&gt;
                 &lt;/p&gt;
                 &lt;p class="note"&gt;
                    &lt;span class="type"&gt;Overall rating&lt;/span&gt;
                    &lt;span class="value"&gt;8&lt;/span&gt;
                 &lt;/p&gt;
              &lt;/div&gt;
           &lt;/div&gt;
        &lt;/content&gt;
        &lt;category term="cuisine-54" label="Spanish" /&gt;
        &lt;Point xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"&gt;
           &lt;lat&gt;51.123456789&lt;/lat&gt;
           &lt;long&gt;-0.11111111&lt;/long&gt;
        &lt;/Point&gt;
     &lt;/entry&gt;
  &lt;/feed&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is XSLT</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?&gt;
  
  &lt;xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:wgs="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" exclude-result-prefixes="atom wgs"&gt;
    &lt;xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/&gt;
  
    &lt;xsl:key name="uniqueVenuesKey" match="entry" use="id"/&gt;
    &lt;xsl:key name="uniqueCategoriesKey" match="entry" use="category/@term"/&gt;
  
    &lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt;
      &lt;locations&gt;
        &lt;!-- Get all unique venues --&gt;
        &lt;xsl:for-each select="/*[local-name()='feed']/*[local-name()='entry']"&gt;
          &lt;xsl:variable name="CurrentVenueKey" select="*[local-name()='id']" &gt;&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;
          &lt;xsl:variable name="CurrentVenueName" select="*[local-name()='title']" &gt;&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;
          &lt;xsl:variable name="CurrentVenueAddress1" select="*[local-name()='content']/*[local-name()='div']/*[local-name()='div']/*[local-name()='p'][@class='adr']/*[local-name()='span'][@class='street-address']" &gt;&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;
          &lt;xsl:variable name="CurrentVenueCity" select="*[local-name()='content']/*[local-name()='div']/*[local-name()='div']/*[local-name()='p'][@class='adr']/*[local-name()='span'][@class='locality']" &gt;&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;
          &lt;xsl:variable name="CurrentVenuePostcode" select="*[local-name()='postcode']" &gt;&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;
          &lt;xsl:variable name="CurrentVenueTelephone" select="*[local-name()='telephone']" &gt;&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;
          &lt;xsl:variable name="CurrentVenueLat" select="*[local-name()='Point']/*[local-name()='lat']" &gt;&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;
          &lt;xsl:variable name="CurrentVenueLong" select="*[local-name()='Point']/*[local-name()='long']" &gt;&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;
          &lt;xsl:variable name="CurrentCategory" select="WHATDOIPUTHERE"&gt;&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;
  
              &lt;location&gt;
                &lt;locationName&gt;
                  &lt;xsl:value-of select = "$CurrentVenueName" /&gt;
                &lt;/locationName&gt;
                &lt;category&gt;
                  &lt;xsl:value-of select = "$CurrentCategory" /&gt;
                &lt;/category&gt;
                &lt;description&gt;
                    &lt;xsl:value-of select = "$CurrentVenueName" /&gt;
                &lt;/description&gt;
                &lt;venueAddress&gt;
                  &lt;streetName&gt;
                    &lt;xsl:value-of select = "$CurrentVenueAddress1" /&gt;
                  &lt;/streetName&gt;
                  &lt;town&gt;
                    &lt;xsl:value-of select = "$CurrentVenueCity" /&gt;
                  &lt;/town&gt;
                  &lt;postcode&gt;
                    &lt;xsl:value-of select = "$CurrentVenuePostcode" /&gt;
                  &lt;/postcode&gt;
                  &lt;wgs84_latitude&gt;
                    &lt;xsl:value-of select = "$CurrentVenueLat" /&gt;
                  &lt;/wgs84_latitude&gt;
                  &lt;wgs84_longitude&gt;
                    &lt;xsl:value-of select = "$CurrentVenueLong" /&gt;
                  &lt;/wgs84_longitude&gt;
                &lt;/venueAddress&gt;
                &lt;venuePhone&gt;
                  &lt;phonenumber&gt;
                    &lt;xsl:value-of select = "$CurrentVenueTelephone" /&gt;
                  &lt;/phonenumber&gt;
                &lt;/venuePhone&gt;
            &lt;/location&gt;
          &lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;
      &lt;/locations&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:template&gt;
  &lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm trying to replace the $CurrentCategory variable the appropriate code to display <em>mycategorytext</em></p>