This is a question based on my other problem in "xml:number problem" thread.
Please read that thread and see if you can help me there. THANKS!!!
Charlene
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From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 12:40 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] empty string
You can, however, generate an element or attribute node which has no
content, which serializes (or doesn't, depend on how you look at it) as an
"empty string" and/or which processing software can easily "recognize" as
an "empty string".
Why you would want to put an empty string into output, as (was it?) Mike
said, is another question. I suppose if we reversed it to say "not put a
string with any content" into output, it's easier to see -- yet that's
easy, you just do nothing!
I love philosophy early in the day.
Cheers,
Wendell
At 07:42 PM 6/17/2003, Mike wrote:
Yan, Charlene wrote:
Is there a way to put an empty string in xsl.
No, not a truly empty string. XSLT is about generating a DOM-like tree of
nodes from which linear output, such as a series of bytes representing an
encoded string, is typically derived automatically. The production of a text
node requires the presence of at least one character. The character could be
a space or other non-printing character though.
___&&__&_&___&_&__&&&__&_&__&__&&____&&_&___&__&_&&_____&__&__&&_____&_&&_
"Thus I make my own use of the telegraph, without consulting
the directors, like the sparrows, which I perceive use it
extensively for a perch." -- Thoreau
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