XSL: testing for existance 1

[Jawa]

How could I go about testing for the existance of a value in my XML?

say:

<person>
<name value=&quot;Peter&quot;>
<address>75 Hunts Street</address>
</name>
<name value=&quot;Andrew&quot;>
<address></address>
</name>
<name>
<address>45 Main</address>
</name>
</person>


For the above how could I go about using the for-each to only display on values but not empties?

Thank you!!!!

 

[HowardMarks]

If the values were empty, nothing would be displayed anyway!

Otherwise, the way you can test if something exists would be something like this:

<xsl:if test=&quot;Address!=''&quot;>
<xsl:value-of select=&quot;Address&quot;/>
</xsl:if>

This would only display the value if it existed. Another way to check would be to use content-length i.e.

<xsl:if test=&quot;content-length(Address)>0&quot;>

Checks if the length of the content is greater than 0.

Hope this helps you! Nick (Software Developer)

http://www.retrographics.co.uk

http://www.retrotest.co.uk

nick@retrographics.fsnet.co.uk
nick.price@myenable.com

 

[Jawa]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jfrost10]

Thanks Nick, your code saved my @$$!


Jack