Re: [xsl] Determine if an element with descents has complete empty text

This comes to my mind

string-join(for $x in $context/descendent:text() return $x) != ''


On 2 October 2016 at 17:45, Eliot Kimber ekimber(_at_)contrext(_dot_)com <
xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:

> I've inherited some code that has this type of check to determine if an
> element with arbitrary possible subelements has completely empty text
> content:
>
> normalize-space(string-join($context//text(), '')) != ''
>
> In XSLT 2 I'm pretty sure there's a simpler and/or more efficient way to
> do this.
>
>
> Is there a better way to do this and if so, what is it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eliot
> --
> Eliot Kimber
> http://contrext.com

with best regards,
Mukul gandhi
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