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RE: 2 questions
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:26:43 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] 2 questions
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> 1) I know that there is no need to check for
> string-length() when checking to see if an element is
> empty or not, but the following checks seem to be
> failing in my XSLT and I am not sure why.
You don't show your source XML, but if you are testing for empty elements
then your code is wrong.
<xsl:if test="JobTitle"> tests if a JobTitle element exists
<xsl:if test="JobTitle!=''"> tests if a non-empty JobTitle element exists
(where "empty" means that its string-value is an empty string)
>
> 2) How does one check to see what the parent of an
> element is? I am currently trying this, with no luck.
>
> <xsl:template
> match="Link[parent::node()='RelatedLinks']">
>
> I want only those links elements that have the parent
> element 'RelatedLinks,'
<xsl:template match="RelatedLinks/Link">
or if you prefer
<xsl:template match="Link[parent::RelatedLinks]">
You are testing the content of the parent element, not its name.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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