> I'm hoping there's a more elegant way to do it using a one-line 
> apply-templates or call-templates instead of three or more if
> statement
> 
> lines.   I've been pretty successful in getting most of the
> conditional
> code
> 
> out of my templates.  This is one of the areas I haven't spent much
> time 
> trying to figured out yet...


In many cases it is possible to have a conditional expression in one
line (e.g. conditional selection of strings, conditional selection of a
nodeset, conditional selection of arguments of an operation, etc, etc.)
-- it depends on what you want to do if the condition is true or false,
which you haven't shown to us.



=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL


> 
> 
> 
> >From: "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject:  Re: Identifying Existence of Attributes
> >Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 09:43:37 +0100
> >
> ><balajeec@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>
>news:551A143C7FC0F64FA508178F55A7E01902FE2412@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Hi ,
> > > I have an element by the name
> > > <Text>
> > > I want to check whether the current <Text> node has the attribute
> by the
> >name
> > > "indent"
> > > defined in it.
> > > How can i do it.??
> > >
> >
> >Just test for @indent
> >
> >e.g.:
> >
> ><xsl:if test="@indent ">
> >   <!-- do something -->
> ></xsl:if>
> >
> >
> >Translated in English the above means: "if the current node has an 
> >attribute
> >named 'indent' do something".
> >
> >The test does not depend on whether the current node is named
> "Text",
> >because you said this is already a known fact.
> >
> >
> >In case you want to check that both the current node is named "Text"
> and
> it
> >has an attribute named "indent", the XPath expression that returns
> the
> 
> >truth
> >value of this fact is:
> >
> >self::Text and @indent





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