[snip] Man, what a verbose way of having to
populate a comment
box.
why not add a space:
<xsl:value-of select="concat(./currentStatus/comment,' ')"/>
I suppose if there was a situation where you didn't want to add an
obligatory space you could put the space or "no comment" or whatever into a
node-set variable, $fallback and do this:
<xsl:value-of select="./currentStatus/comment | $fall-back"/>
which I think would give you the value of the first member of the union of
the two node-sets. That's assuming that the union is ordered.
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Tom SW
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