I have an XML document that may contain nodes with no children
<node>
</node>
in the XPath data model that node does contain a child, a text node
consisting of a newline and 6 spaces.
This is a VFAQ, the answers are
test="not(node())" (tests if really empty)
or
test="not(*)" (tests if no element children)
or
test="string(.)" (tests if string value is empty)
or
test="normalize-space(.)" (tests if string value is just white space)
or
...
David
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