From: Karl J. Stubsjoen [mailto:karl(_at_)azprogolf(_dot_)com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 1:42 PM
Subject: [xsl] If statement and empty attribute
Hi,
I have an if statement which should evaluate to true when the
attribute
viewable='true' or does not exist. It would evaluate to
false only when the
attribute viewable equals 'false'. I've got the following:
<xsl:if test="@viewable!='false'">
<xsl:value-of select="$currentVAL"/>
</xsl:if>
Which works, if the attribute viewable exists, but if it
doesn't exist then
the statement is always false. Any suggestions? It needs to
evaluate to
true if the attribute does not exist.
<xsl:if test="@viewable = 'true' or not(@viewable)">
<xsl:value-of select="$currentVAL"/>
</xsl:if>
not() will return true if the expression in the argument evaluates to false
(a bit like 2 - (-2) = 4). So, in this case if @viewable is not present,
then the first part of the above test will return false, but the or operator
will cause the processor to evaluate the second part, which will be true.
hth,
b.
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