Subject: RE: [xsl] Testing for Missing or Empty Tags From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 15:05:14 -0500 |
Thanks, Wendell, Vasu, Michael, and David for your helpfule responses.
Am I correct that: 1)not(Tag[normalize-space()]) will treat all blanks as if it were empty text, whereas not(string(Tag)) will not?
[a] Tag[normalize-space()] or Tag[string()] (short for child::Tag[normalize-space(self::node())] and child::Tag[string(self::node())] )
[b] string(Tag) or normalize-space(Tag) (short for string(child::Tag) or normalize-space(child::Tag) ) ...
2)If I had multiple sets of a given element, not(Tag[normalize-space()]) will return true for the following xml document because of the second Tag element, while not(string(Tag)) will return false since the first tag element has text?
<Xml> <Tag>somevalue</Tag> <Tag></Tag> <Tag>Another value</Tag> </Xml>
I hope this helps-- Wendell
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