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Re: Can you embed a filter test ahead of the format-number function in the xsl:value-of method


Why not adding this filter directly to for-each?

<xsl:for-each select="NodeSomething[@attribute2 != '']">
     <xsl:value-of select="...."/>
</xsl:for-each>

Joerg

jdgarrett@alltel.net wrote:

> Given the following XML snippet
> 
> 
> <NodeSomething  attribute1="1234" attribute2="3">5678</NodeSomething>
> <NodeSomething  attribute1="12"   attribute2="">Abc</NodeSomething>
> <NodeSomething  attribute1="1256" attribute2="45">456</NodeSomething>
> <NodeSomething  attribute1="1298" attribute2="">8899</NodeSomething>
> 
> I would like to change the following XSLT (which works but is code bloat)
> 
> <xsl:for-each select="NodeSomething">
> <xsl:if test="./@attribute2 != ''">
> 	<xsl:value-of select="format-number(./@attribute2,"#,###.00")"/>
> </xsl:if>
> </xsl:for-each>
> 
> 
> to the following (so that I can optimize the code)
> 
> <xsl:for-each select="NodeSomething">
> 	<xsl:value-of select="[./@attribute2 !=
> '']format-number(./@attribute2,"#,###.00")"/>
> </xsl:for-each>
> 
> 
> is it possible to embed a filter test ahead of the format-number function in
> the xsl:value-of so
> that if the filter test was true then and only then it would call the
> format-number
> function on the selected attribute rather than doing the xsl:if test and
> then
> calling the xsl:value-of method ??
> 
> As you know, if attribute2 is empty then I get a NaN which format-number
> returns NaN
> rather than just nothing ....
> 
> Please advise
> Thank You
> JGarrett
> 
> 
> 
> 
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