Thanks for your reply David....
I stuck with my initial foray into if/when etc...and came up with this:
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="string-length(member_name)=0">Unassigned</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="member_name"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
AJ
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From: David Carlisle <davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk>
Reply-To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:07:27 +0100
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Subject: Re: [xsl] Output a default value for an empty node
<xsl:template match="foo">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="foo[not(text()]">
<foo>hello mum</foo>
</xsl:template>
will convert
<foo>zzz</foo> to <foo>zzz</foo>
and
<foo/> to <foo>hello mum</foo>
David
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