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Re: how can check whether an attribute exists or not?
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] how can check whether an attribute exists or not?
- From: "Russ Holmes" <rholmes at elite dot com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:20:29 +1300
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To test if attribute href exists in an XML document use
<xsl:when test="@href'">
Russ
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From: "Rosa I-Ting Cheng" <Rosa@ceanet.com.au>
To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 4:44 PM
Subject: [xsl] how can check whether an attribute exists or not?
> Can anyone please tell me how to test whether an attribute exists? Cos I
> want to test it in a 'when' tags
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="@href=''">
> ....
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise>
> ....
> </xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> And in the XML some tags have the atribute href where as some don't.
> and what i did above didn't work if I didn't have the attribute href="" in
> the XML for the tags that doesn't have the href value.
>
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