> Hi ,
> I have a problem ..
> I have an xml document say "test.xml" & a xsl say 
> "compare.xsl" in the xsl i have to do some error checkin .. 
> ie i have to check whether all the attribute r present or not 
> that i am ale to do usin  <xsl:if test="not[@attibute]" >

I also have a problem, when I read your messages I have to do
spelling-correction  on your text, which slows down my reading rate
considerably.
> 
>  ...i also want to check if a node exists  for ex :
>  <node>
>  <childnode> ..<childnode>
> <node>
> 
>  how do i check if the child node "childnode"  exists 

With "node" as the context node, write

<xsl:if test="childnode">

Michael Kay
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