thanks, Tom, works fine now.

kathy

-----Original Message-----
From: Passin, Tom [mailto:tpassin@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 2:24 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  <xsl:choose> not working -- always results with <xsl:
otherwise>?


[Kathy Burke]

> Hi, I'm trying to use the following choose statement, but 
> when I change my
> xml text to test for both conditions, the results of 
> <xsl:otherwise> always
> show, never the first <choose> which tests (I thought) to see 
> if the text
> node of <measure> is empty. If <measure> is an empty element, 
> I would like
> to give the user an input box, otherwise, just show the data already
> entered.  Any help appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> The xml is simply either <measure name="firstpass">20 mm</measure> or
> <measure name="firstpass/>.
> 
> <xsl:template match="measure">
>    <xsl:choose>
>       <xsl:when test="normalize-space(.)">

You probably want 

 not(normalize-space(.)
^^^

>           <input type="text" name="{@name}" value="{.}"/>
>       </xsl:when>
>       <xsl:otherwise>
>            Entered: <value-of select="."/>

You meant to write 

<xsl:value-of select="."/>
 ^^^
>       </xsl:otherwise>
>    </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
> 

With these corrections, it does what you want.

Cheers,

Tom P

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