RE: Two Hard Questions (at least for me)

Subject: RE: Two Hard Questions (at least for me)
From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 16:26:24 +0100
> I want to match any node with no data.
>     example:
> 	<field1>data</field1>
> 	<field2></field2>
> 
> How do I match field2's null.  I have tried the following 
> with no luck.
> <xsl:template match="*[not(text())]">
>   NULL VALUE
> </xsl:template> 
> 
This should match any element that has no immediate text content (but I
can't speak for LotusXSL). Note that it will also match elements that have
whitespace text content if the whitespace is stripped.

If you want the element to have "no data" in the sense that it has no
*descendant* text nodes you could try: 

<xsl:template match="*[.='']">

Mike Kay


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