> This gets monotonous after a while.  It would be nice if 
> <xsl:value-of>
> could take an attribute which would provide a default value 
> if the select
> produces an empty result!

Yes I have always moaned about the problems of element minimisation with
the current crop of browsers - how nice it would be to simply have a
minimisation="no" on the serialiser...

There is light at the end of the tunnel though, with an xhtml output
method in xslt 2 and if-then-else in xpath 2.

cheers
andrew


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zakon, Stuart [mailto:stuart_zakon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 November 2002 21:51
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject:  monotonous nbsp coding
> 
> 
> Some older browsers have a problem rendering tables with 
> empty <td> tags in
> them. (You know which ones...)
> Is there a better way to code this in XSLT than the following:
> 
> <td>
>   <xsl:choose>
>     <xsl:when test="string-length() &gt; 0"><xsl:value-of select="."
> /></xsl:when>
>     <xsl:otherwise>&nbsp;</xsl:otherwise>
>   </xsl:choose>
> </td>
> 
> This gets monotonous after a while.  It would be nice if 
> <xsl:value-of>
> could take an attribute which would provide a default value 
> if the select
> produces an empty result!
> 
> Stuart Zakon
> 
> 
> 
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