Re: Conditional output of XML elements

[Tony Graham <tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 9 Aug 1999 15:38 GMT, Anders.Wikstrom@xxxxxxx wrote:
 > The names of the item elements and their corresponding values are ouput
 > into a table in a HTML file using XSL.
 > 
 > My problem is that if an element doesnt have a value as element 3 does in
 > the example i don't want a a row with no corresponding value.

This should work, but hasn't been tested:

<xsl:template match="item3">
  <!-- Use normalize() in case the element contains whitespace
       characters -->
  <!-- normalize() defaults to using the value of the context node -->
  <xsl:if test="normalize()">
    <TR><TD><xsl:apply-templates/></TD></TR>
  </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

This should also work but also hasn't been tested:

<xsl:template match="item3[normalize()]">
  <TR><TD><xsl:apply-templates/></TD></TR>
</xsl:template>

Regards,


Tony Graham
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