How does xsl:if work?

["Brian Burridge" <brian_burridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've read at least 10 arcticles that mention xsl:if, and they all use
the same example. Makes me think that not many of the authors understand
how to use it so they play it safe.

All the examlples use comparisons such as "not(position()=last())".
However, what I want to do is use the if to supress or alter display
based on the value of an attribute.

For example:
<xsl:if test="@team=ALL">
    <td class="th"> Team </td>
</xsl:if>

where the xml is:
<projects title="Display Projects"
xsl="/app/webdocroot/insidectm/projectutility/display_projects_xsl/default.xsl"
pcode="null" team="ALL" status="null" department="null"
group="project_number" priority="ALL" user="bburridg" >
<project>
 <number>1102</number>
 <title>This is the title</title>
 <priority>3</priority>
</project>
</projects>

So the "team" is an attribute of projects and if the team is ALL I want
to add a team column (to label each row with the team), whereas, if the
team is a specific team there is no point in putting that team on every
row, so I'll suppress that column.
--

Brian N. Burridge
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