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RE: How can I test if element is empty?


That's solution I'm looking for :-)

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of David
Carlisle
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 2:54 PM
To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
Subject: Re: [xsl] How can I test if element is empty?



> One way to do it is:
> <xsl:when test="string(elem) == string('')">
> Note: the quotes inside the second string() is two single quotes

No. This is a FAQ. (see the faq pages, I'd guess)
equality is = not == and the above would test true for

<elem><anything/><x><y/></x></elem>

sometimes you do want to test for that, but it isn't testing if the
element is empty.

<xsl:when test="elem/node()">
tests if elem has any child nodes (text, comments, elements, pis)

David

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