Re: [xsl] defaulting empty node to zero

Subject: Re: [xsl] defaulting empty node to zero
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 16:52:19 -0400
Chuck,

How about number(concat('0',$node))?

Summing is a bit harder; you may not be able to use a trick like this at all (until XPath 2).

Cheers,
Wendell

At 04:03 PM 5/24/2002, you wrote:
I want to find the numeric value of a node. If the node is empty (e.g.: <taxAmount/>) I want zero. I also want zero when applying sum() to the same or a set of similar nodes.
Is there a solution to this problem other than setting a variable, check the variable = NaN, return the variable or zero?


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