I'm in this same situation.  I've seen this question pop up on this 
forum before - but I don't remember anyone having an answer.  Maybe this
hasn't been addressed yet in xsl???

rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: merle [mailto:f.merle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 6:11 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: empty tag
> 
> 
> I am working with the draft of december. My problem is that I have
> sometimes tags which are empty and sometimes not (when I say 
> empty it is
> for example <DOCUMENT></DOCUMENT> end not <DOCUMENT/>). I 
> would like to
> display on my screen tags which are not empty. So I have to test if it
> is equal to "". How can I do?
> thank you
> 
> 
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