[xsl] Re: testing for child nodes

[Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> I want to to be able to test for a node that has no child nodes but could
> possibly have attributes.
> I display the test value like so:
> **<xsl:value-of select="not(child::node())"/>**
> for a node that looks like this:
> <pointer role="News1" fileref="news1.xml"/>


I forgot to add that the following also returns true (when matching on
section):
<section>
    <pointer>
<section>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Koberg" <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 9:26 AM
Subject: testing for child nodes


> Hello all,
>
> I want to to be able to test for a node that has no child nodes but could
> possibly have attributes.
> I display the test value like so:
> **<xsl:value-of select="not(child::node())"/>**
> for a node that looks like this:
> <pointer role="News1" fileref="news1.xml"/>
>
> but the result is always true.  How do you test for this? The pertinent
part
> of the XSL is below:
>
>    <xsl:choose>
>       <xsl:when test="node()!=text() and not(child::node())">
>          <input type="hidden" name="{concat('_tag',$family,'.end')}"
> value="/{name()}"/><xsl:text>
>          </xsl:text>
>       </xsl:when>
>       <xsl:when test="child::node()">
>          <input type="hidden" name="{concat('_tag',$family,'.end')}"
> value="{name()}/"/><xsl:text>
>          </xsl:text>
>       </xsl:when>
>       <xsl:when test="node()=text()">
>          <xsl:value-of select="name()"/><xsl:text>: </xsl:text><input
> name="{concat(name(),$family)}" value="{.}"/><br/><xsl:text>
>          </xsl:text>
>       </xsl:when>
>    </xsl:choose>
>


 XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list