Hi David,
  You are right in your reasoning. But the original
question asked was "if a node say <fruits></fruits> in
the XML file has data in it or not". By having data, I
assumed "string value".. 

Regards,
Mukul

--- David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
>      <xsl:if test="mygarden/fruits = ''">
>     <!-- evaluates to true if node fruits does not
> contain data -->
> 
> Not really, it evaluates to true if its string value
> is empty
> so it would be true for
> <mygarden><fruits><apples/></fruits><mygarden>
> 
> 
> To test if the element is non empty use
> 
>      <xsl:if test="mygarden/fruits/node()">
> 
> 
> David
> 
>
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