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RE: Variable: true or false
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- Subject: [xsl] RE: Variable: true or false
- From: "Tom Gilbert" <tom dot gilbert at cartanova dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:56:13 -0500
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I recently submitted the original message and got the answer that the
variable "selectUser" should be an empty string and that
Xalan was probably getting it wrong.
As a follow on I was wondering what is supposed to happen if I change:
<xsl:variable name="selectUser"/>
to:
<xsl:param name="selectUser"/>
I want to determine if a param passed into a stylesheet has been
assigned a value. In a perfect world, should I still be able to do
the simple true/false test? My guess from looking at the spec is
that "selectUser" should be an empty string if it is not assigned,
just like the variable case.
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Gilbert [mailto:tom.gilbert@cartanova.com]
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 2:54 PM
To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
Subject: Variable: true or false
I do the transform on this XSL and get "true". I would have expected
"false".
Thought the boolean of an empty object would always be false.
Using Xerces 1.4 and Xalan 1.1
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:variable name="selectUser"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$selectUser">
true
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
false
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Tom Gilbert
tom.gilbert@cartanova.com
Cartanova, Inc.
10558 N. Port Washington Rd.
Mequon, WI 53092
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