Subject: RE: testing for null string in a node
From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 16:34:57 -0000
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> I want to be able to test if the value of a certain node is empty
Depends what you mean by empty.
Contains no child nodes: not(node())
Contains no text content: not(string(.))
Contains no text other than whitespace: not(normalize-space(.))
Contains nothing except comments: not(node()[not(self::comment())])
Mike Kay
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