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Re: defaulting empty node to zero
- From: Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 16:52:19 -0400
- Subject: Re: [xsl] defaulting empty node to zero
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Chuck,
How about number(concat('0',$node))?
Summing is a bit harder; you may not be able to use a trick like this at
all (until XPath 2).
Cheers,
Wendell
At 04:03 PM 5/24/2002, you wrote:
>I want to find the numeric value of a node. If the node is empty (e.g.:
><taxAmount/>) I want zero. I also want zero when applying sum() to the
>same or a set of similar nodes.
>Is there a solution to this problem other than setting a variable, check
>the variable = NaN, return the variable or zero?
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