RE: [xsl] Empty nodes - more informative

["Dominic J. Blythe" <Dominic dot Blythe at BCPSoftware dot com>]

you have to be more specific with your templates i think.
When you match "*" you're matching at one point the <topic> node 
whose value is
<topic>
	<a>Hello</a>
	<b code="123"/>
	<c/>
</topic> 

Because not(string(.)) means "the string value of the current node 
is an empty string", when this test is applied to the topic node
it fails because the string value of the topic node is
<topic>
	<a>Hello</a>
	<b code="123"/>
	<c/>
</topic> 

at some point in the output, it'll get down to <b code="123"/>
whose string value is "", and not put it out twice, but by then it
will have already processed, or be about to process (dont know what
order * match goes in...) the <topic> node which will output the
whole
<topic>
	<a>Hello</a>
	<b code="123"/>
	<c/>
</topic> 


I could be wrong about this...







> I try with this :
> <xsl:transform xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> version="1.0">
> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="no"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
> 	<xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="*">
> 	<xsl:choose>
> 		<xsl:when test="not(string(.))"/>
> 		<xsl:otherwise>
> 			<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
> 		</xsl:otherwise>
> 	</xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:transform>
> 
> but <b code="123/> and <c/> are still in the output.
> 
> Benoit.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dominic J. Blythe [mailto:Dominic.Blythe@BCPSoftware.com]
> > Sent: 04 July 2001 13:40
> > To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> > Subject: RE: [xsl] Empty nodes - more informative
> > 
> > 
> > try not(string(.)) 
> > 
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