If statement question

["Darrell W. Royter" <droyter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have encountered a rather difficult question recently. The answer may be
simple, but it's the question itself that is hard to phrase, so bear with
me.

I have a DSSSL and I wish to format an element based upon the content of the
element itself. If the content of the element is "No", I want an empty
sosofo, but I'd like to output everything else.

An example would be if I had a list of information about a person and wanted
to list any pets the person has. If in the SGML I had  <name>Joe</>
<anypets>Dog</>

I would want to output something like "Joe owns a dog". But if Joe has no
pets, I don't want it to say "Joe owns a No."

>From what I have read and seen, there is no way for Jade to look at the
content of an element. It can look at attribute strings, but not what falls
in between the tags. Am I wrong? What do I need to do to fix this?

I have tried to phrase this in several different ways. The end result is
that either all or none of the element appear in my document.

Thanks,
Darrell




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