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RE: when test
- To: "'Mike Gargiullo'" <mgargiullo at smallworld dot com>
- Subject: RE: when test
- From: Eric Taylor <Eric dot Taylor at RealPage dot com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 08:09:13 -0500
- Cc: "'XSL-List at mulberrytech dot com'" <XSL-List at mulberrytech dot com>
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Hi Mike. Appreciate the response. Your solution would work great if the
answer existed in my XML data, but my problem on this one is that I need to
do the test on what the getdirectory script returns rather than on anything
in my current file, that is, the equivalent of:
<xsl:when
test="not(<xsl:eval>getDirectory(this.getAttribute('page'))</xsl:eval>)">
only I know I can't do it like that. I thought of putting the value the
script into a variable and testing that, but MSXML2 (which is what I'm stuck
with for the moment with IE5) doesn't support xsl:variable (see
http://www.vbxml.com/xsl/XSLTRef.asp <http://www.vbxml.com/xsl/XSLTRef.asp>
), so I don't think I can do that. Anyone have further thoughts?
From: Mike Gargiullo [mailto:mgargiullo@smallworld.com]
<xsl:when test="not(sometag='')">
will be true if "sometag" contains data (sometag is from your xml
structure, can be at any level)
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----Original Message-----
From: Eric Taylor [ mailto:Eric.Taylor@RealPage.com
<mailto:Eric.Taylor@RealPage.com> ]
Part of my XSL looks like this:
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when *** stuck here ***>
<A>
<xsl:attribute
name="href"><xsl:eval>getDirectory(this.getAttribute('page'))</xsl:eval></xs
l:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="target">new_window</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="@text"/>
</A>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="@text"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
I only want the "when" to happen if
<xsl:eval>getDirectory(this.getAttribute('page'))</xsl:eval> returns some
value (that is, if it returns a blank value, I want to do the "otherwise").
I don't know the syntax for this. Thanks. Eric
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