Re: [xsl] Checking whether a child node exists with specified attribute value.

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

Shawn Milochik wrote:

> What I want to do is check whether a node with multiple children, all
> containing attribute "name," happens to have a child where the "name"
> attribute is "address1."

  <xsl:if test="*[@name = 'address1']">


> XML:
>       <dataElement type="address" name="addrProjectOwner"
> dbfield="projOwnerAddress">
>         <addrField name="orgName" />
>         <addrField name="address1" />
>         <addrField name="address2" />
>         <addrField name="city" />
>         <addrField name="state" />
>         <addrField name="zip" />
>       </dataElement>
>
> XSLT (please help fix):
>
> (At this point I'm iterating through all <dataElement> nodes in the XML)
> <xsl:if test="@type='address'">
>     <xsl:if test="if an addrField in my children has name 'address1''">

      <xsl:if test="addrField[@name = 'address1']">

>         <input type="text" id="txtAddress1" />
>     </xsl:if>
>     <xsl:if test="if an addrField in my children has name 'salami''">
>         <input type="text" id="txtSalami" />
>     </xsl:if>
> </xsl:if>

You might however want to factor out stuff into templates e.g.
  <xsl:template match="dataElement[@type = 'address']/addField[@name = 
'address1']">
     <input type="text" id="txtAddress1"/>
  </xsl:template>


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