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Re: Best practices
- From: David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:27:50 +0100
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Best practices
- References: <CF698667C737D41198E50060943F3CF6F6826B@hoexch03.amica.com>
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> what is the "defacto" way to test for an empty
> element?
if by empty you mean no children then the most obvious way (if the
element is the current node)
is <xsl:if test="not(node())">
you can also test <xsl:if test=".=''"> but that would say that
<a><b/></a> was empty.
If by empty you mean no element children
then
<xsl:if test="not(*)">
David
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