Hi jeremyf,
I have an XML document that may contain nodes with no children
<node>
</node>
That's an element called 'node' with a single text node child (the
text node is just whitespace, but it still counts as a text node
unless you're stripping spaces?).
I need to test if this is the case in my XSL in order to output the
correct information
I suspect that you want to test whether the 'node' element contains
any element children, in which case the test should be:
<xsl:template match="node">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="*">
'node' element has child elements
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
'node' element doesn't have child elements
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
But you might mean any one of:
test="node()" -- any child nodes
test="* or text()" -- any element or text children
test="* or normalize-space()" -- any element or text aside from
whitespace
I hope that one of those fulfills your requirements.
Cheers,
Jeni
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