RE: [xsl] xsl:if syntax problem

[Brian Moynihan <BMoynihan at orygen dot com>]

Joerg,

Found a solution to our problem. We moved the <xsl:if> further down in the
xsl file after where some <xsl:attribute> declarations were. Also, after
getting the <xsl:if> statement to work we changed to a <xsl:choose>
statement as follows:

   <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="onClick[. !=''] ">

The important part being the "onClick[. !=''] " .....

Brian.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joerg Heinicke [mailto:joerg.heinicke@gmx.de]
Sent: 20 March 2002 14:38
To: Brian Moynihan
Subject: Re: [xsl] xsl:if syntax problem


Hmm, really strange. It should work. But here a complete example:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>

<xsl:template match="entity">
     <xsl:text>entity </xsl:text>
     <xsl:value-of select="@id"/>
     <xsl:text>: </xsl:text>
     <xsl:if test="normalize-space(onClick)">
         <xsl:text>onClick exists and it is not empty</xsl:text>
     </xsl:if>
     <xsl:if test="not(normalize-space(onClick))">
         <xsl:text>onClick does not exist or it is empty</xsl:text>
     </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="text()"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

This stylesheet gives you a list of all <entity>'s with the information, 
whether there is onClick or not. Add linebreaks or <br/> if you need it.

Of course the two <xsl:if>'s can be replaced by <xsl:choose>, <xsl:when> 
and <xsl:otherwise>, but it should only show the right way.

Regards,

Joerg

Brian Moynihan wrote:
> Hi Joerg,
> 
> Thanks for your reply ... unfortunately it doesn't solve our problem.
> 
> We realise that we are testing the xsl:if statement both ways, but this is
> in order to get the syntax of the if statement correct.
> 
> We have tried your suggestions but to no avail. It looks to us like the
XSL
> is not seeing the <onClick> tag, although later on in our XSL we are able
to
> retrieve the value associated with the <onClick> tag.
> 
> If you have any more suggestions can you please reply. Ideally, could you
> forward on an example of a working xsl:if statement.
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> Brian.

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