How can I transform an element attribute to an element name in XSLT?

I'd link to transform XML with attributes like the 'name' attribute in the following:

<books>
  <book name="TheBumperBookOfXMLProgramming"/>
  <book name="XsltForDummies"/>
</books>

into elements called what was in the name attribute:

<books>
  <TheBumperBookOfXMLProgramming/>
  <XsltForDummies/>
</books>

using XSLT. Any ideas?

From stackoverflow

• You can create elements by name using xsl:element:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  <xsl:stylesheet 
       version="1.0" 
       xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
  
    <xsl:template match="/">
      <books>
        <xsl:apply-templates />
      </books>
  
    </xsl:template>
  
    <xsl:template match="book">
      <xsl:element name="{@name}" />
    </xsl:template>
  
  </xsl:stylesheet>
  

  pc1oad1etter : This leaves open the possibility of creating invalid xml (read: not xml) because the character set is more restricted with element names.

  0xA3 : @pc1oad1etter: How is it more restricted? As far as I know both are names according to this [production rule](http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Name)

• <xsl:template match="book">
     <xsl:element name="{@name}">
         <xsl:copy-of select="@*[name()!='name'] />
     </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>
  

  this also copies over any properties on <book> not named 'name'

  <book name="XsltForDummies" id="12" />
  

  will turn into

  <XsltForDummies id="12 />