I'm working on someone else's code at the moment, and the author uses
this construction very often:
<xsl:when test="string-length(anElement) > 0">
statements
<xsl:otherwise>
'else' statements
I *think* what he's trying to do is to test if anElement is empty or
not, and act accordingly.
But couldn't you rewrite that as
<xsl:when test="anElement">
...
<xsl:otherwise>
...
(as someone suggested a few threads ago)?
Or does the string-length() method check for something that
the second
method doesn't cover?
Consider <foo> </foo> and <foo/>
"string-length(anElement) > 0" will return true for the first one,
"normalize-space()" will return false for both.
Cheers
andrew