At 02:50 PM 11/13/2002, you wrote:
<td>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="string-length() > 0"><xsl:value-of select="."
/></xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise> </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!
Make a template that does just that.
<xsl:template name="monotonous">
<xsl:param name="str" select="." />
<xsl:value-of select="$str" />
<xsl:if test="string-length() = 0">
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:call-template>
and then you have
<td>
<xsl:call-template name="monotonous" />
</td>
I don't think you need to explicitly pass the parameter because of the
default value, but play with it to make sure. You may need to include the line
<xsl:with-param name="str" select="." />
but I hope not.
Greg Faron
Integre Technical Publishing Co.
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