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RE: monotonous nbsp coding

2002-11-14 02:33:13

This gets monotonous after a while.  It would be nice if 
<xsl:value-of>
could take an attribute which would provide a default value 
if the select
produces an empty result!

Yes I have always moaned about the problems of element minimisation with
the current crop of browsers - how nice it would be to simply have a
minimisation="no" on the serialiser...

There is light at the end of the tunnel though, with an xhtml output
method in xslt 2 and if-then-else in xpath 2.

cheers
andrew


-----Original Message-----
From: Zakon, Stuart [mailto:stuart_zakon(_at_)medcohealth(_dot_)com]
Sent: 13 November 2002 21:51
To: 'xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com'
Subject: [xsl] monotonous nbsp coding


Some older browsers have a problem rendering tables with 
empty <td> tags in
them. (You know which ones...)
Is there a better way to code this in XSLT than the following:

<td>
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="string-length() &gt; 0"><xsl:value-of select="."
/></xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>&nbsp;</xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</td>

This gets monotonous after a while.  It would be nice if 
<xsl:value-of>
could take an attribute which would provide a default value 
if the select
produces an empty result!

Stuart Zakon



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