How to ensure that an Xml element is not blank 1

[KG0102]

Hi I am new to sharepoint and want to ensure that none of the tags in our tenmplate is left blank can anybody help.

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KG0102

 

[tsuji]

Try ask here instead.

http://tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=820

 

[KG0102]

Hi tsuji,
Actually I just want to know is there any function etc in XSLT that recognises that a a mandatory XML tag has been left blank and throws an error.


Regards,
KG0102

 

[tsuji]

It seems that depends on how the test appears. For instance in xslt, you can use normalize-space() and length() xslt functions supported in v1.0 up. As to "throws an error", xslt won't do it. You can show a message to that effect. To throw an error, it should be conditioned that the processing is in some other language which can throw exception (java/php/perl/c) or, to the same effect apart from the name, raise an error object (such a vbs/vb...)