Re: [xsl] Re: Determining whether no single instance of a specific node exists

[Mark Peters <markpeters.work@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Micheal,

Your statement looks right. I'll play around with it.

Thanks for your help.

Mark

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Michael Dykman <mdykman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Mark Peters <markpeters.work@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>> Sorry, my XSL examples weren't quite right.  I'm trying to determine
>> whether no instance of <c/> exists for each <b/> set.
>>
>> So, in my XSL document, assume I'm processing each <a/> node.
>>
>> 1,
>> <xsl:when test="not(b/c)">
>>
>> 2.
>> <xsl:when test="count(not(b/c)) &gt;= 1">
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mark Peters <markpeters.work@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> I have the following XML document:
>>>
>>>     <a>
>>>             <b/>
>>>             <b/>
>>>             <b/>
>>>     </a>
>>>     <a>
>>>             <b/>
>>>             <b/>
>>>             <b>
>>>                     <c/>
>>>             </b>
>>>
>>>     </a>
>>>     <a>
>>>             <b/>
>>>             <b/>
>>>             <b/>
>>>     </a>
>>>
>>> For each <b/> set, I want to apply a transformation only if no single
>>> instance of <c/> exists. I know how to check whether a node does
>>> exist, but not how to check whether no single instance of the node
>>> exists.
>>>
>>> I've tried the following conditional statements without success:
>>>
>>> 1,
>>> <xsl:when test="not(a/b/c)">
>>>
>>> 2.
>>> <xsl:when test="count(not(a/b/c)) &gt;= 1">
>>>
>>>
>>> What conditional statement should I use?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>>
>
> Are you looking for something along the line of
>
> <xsl:when test="not(count(b/c) &gt;= 1)">
> ??
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>
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