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At 2004-04-02 06:33 +0300, Jarno.Elovirta@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> <xsl:for-each select="Reports/GridBody0"> > > <xsl:if test="Col3 != ''" > Note that the above two expressions do not always produce the same results, though many of my XSL students over the years have assumed that they are identical and are surprised to learn the nuances. If a Col3 element child exists for the current node, they are identical. If a Col3 element child does not exist for the current node, the first expression will produce a false and the second expression will produce a true. Many forget that a comparison of a node set to another operand is initialized to false and if there are no members of the node set the false value is returned. The use of not() in the expression above changes the test to true. An illustration is below. I hope this is considered helpful, though it is off topic from the original post. I was worried someone might read the above in the context of their own transformation problem and assume they were identical. .................... Ken T:\ftemp>type jarno.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:jarno="test"
version="1.0"><xsl:output method="text"/> <jarno:data1> <Col1>abc</Col1> <Col3>def</Col3> </jarno:data1> <jarno:data2> <Col1>abc</Col1> </jarno:data2> <xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="document('')/*/jarno:data1">
Data test 1:
test="Col3 != ''" - <xsl:value-of select="Col3 != ''"/>
test="not(Col3 = '')" - <xsl:value-of select="not(Col3 = '')"/>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:for-each select="document('')/*/jarno:data2">
Data test 2:
test="Col3 != ''" - <xsl:value-of select="Col3 != ''"/>
test="not(Col3 = '')" - <xsl:value-of select="not(Col3 = '')"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet> T:\ftemp>saxon jarno.xsl jarno.xsl Data test 1:
test="Col3 != ''" - true
test="not(Col3 = '')" - true
Data test 2:
test="Col3 != ''" - false
test="not(Col3 = '')" - true
T:\ftemp>
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