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Re: Finding if a node exists
a processor intensive method would be
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="test" select="boolean(//a)"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
where the node u are looking for is a, if a is present it would be true
the result is placed in a variable named test.
though this may be optimised if u tell us a little bit more of the situation
u want to achieve.
cheers, jim fuller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Samways" <rsamways@conceptinc.ca>
To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 3:54 PM
Subject: [xsl] Finding if a node exists
> Hi all,
>
> How could I check an entire xml document for the existence of one
> particular node, before determining to do something with its contained
> information (if any)?
>
> Thanks..
> Robin..
>
> Robin Samways, Web Applications Developer
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