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RE: testing for null string in a node

Subject: RE: testing for null string in a node
From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 16:34:57 -0000 
> I want to be able to test if the value of a certain node is empty

Depends what you mean by empty.

Contains no child nodes: not(node())

Contains no text content: not(string(.))

Contains no text other than whitespace: not(normalize-space(.))

Contains nothing except comments: not(node()[not(self::comment())])

Mike Kay 


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