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Re: the fastest way to test if variable is empty

2004-12-08 09:55:06
If your variable is always string, I recommend you boolean() function (
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#function-boolean ) 
--- Dusan Zatkovsky <zatkovsky(_at_)printsoft(_dot_)cz> wrote:

Hi all.

Can anybody tell me the fastest way, how to test, if variable contains some 
text or number?

For now, i am using test "string-length($variable)=0", but seems not to be 
the 
fastest.

Somebody tells me to use test "$variable", but with my XalanC, it seems to be 
true everytime.

Thanks.

PS. variable can't contain nodes, it may contains only alphabetics or numbers 
and whitespaces.

-- 


S pozdravom,
Dusan Zatkovsky

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