Thaks all who answered.. that worked, but now I need  to test if the child doesn't have a node called "menu".

I can use <xsl:if test="child::menu"> to test if menu exists, but how can I test the negative? something like <xsl:if test="not child::menu">?

Thanks
Jaime

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]En nombre de David
> Carlisle
> Enviado el: Martes, 18 de Noviembre de 2003 9:07
> Para: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Asunto: Re:  Knowing if a node has children
> 
> 
> 
> <xsl:if test="child">
> 
> that tests if the current node has a child element called 
> child, to test
> if it has any element child use
> 
>  test="*"
> 
> If you want to also test for text node children, and comments and
> processing instructions (ie test if the element is non-empty) use
> 
> test="node()"
> 
> David
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