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Subject: Re: Checking for empty values
From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:23:27 -0700 (PDT)
Kevin Williams wrote:
> > <xsl:if test="not(node())">
> > 
> > I expect this test fails if there are comments or pi's.
> 
> Shouldn't - according to section 2.3 of the XPath specification:
> 
>   A node test node() is true for any node of any type whatsoever.
> 
> This would include comments and processing instructions...

...as long as they are in the source tree. Comments may not be in
the source tree because the XML parser has the option of ignoring
them.

-Mike


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