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Re: Non-existing node
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Non-existing node
- From: David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:45:21 +0100
- References: <4AD94ABEB713D411B1E300A0C99599261B2709@mail.bowneglobal.es>
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> Well, I already knew that ;)
> The problem is that this is true for a non-existing node:
> <xsl:if test="SomeNode!=''">
> So the value returned must be "something"...
which system are you using?
That test should return false (and saxon and msxsl do the right thing)
SomeNode!=''
see the XPath spec:
SomeNode!=''
s true if and only if there is a node in the node set selected by
SomeNode such that that node has string vale != ''.
If the node set is empty clearly there is no node in the set with this
propoerty so the test is false.
David
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