Thanks Ken and Mukul.

I only tried the first solution and the idea worked out fine.
Actually I realized that I needed to filter all empty elements and elements
containing one or more empty elements or one or more 0-value elements.

I therefore used not(/root/row[column[.=0]) and
not(/root/row[column[normalize-space(.)=''])

Thanks for the fast reply guys!

Sincerely
Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 19. oktober 2004 19:01
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  conditional count


At 2004-10-19 18:07 +0200, Daniel Heskia wrote:
>I can filter out the empty "row"'s by challenging the contents of the 
>entire element by: <xsl:value-of 
>select="count(/root/row[normalize-space()])"/>
>
>But how do I exclude an element "row" if just a single "column" in the 
>element is empty?

For "exclude those with at least one empty column":

    count(/root/row[not(column[not(normalize-space())])])
    "count rows without columns without space"

For "exclude those with exactly one empty column":

    count(/root/row[not(count(column[not(normalize-space())]=1))])
    "count rows without a single column without space"

I hope this helps.

.......................... Ken

><root>
><row>
>   <column>Peter</column>
>   <column>Johnson</column>
>   <column>High Street 10</column>
>   <column>Male</column>
>   <column>15-10-2004</column>
>   <column>13.11</column>
>   </row>
><row>
>   <column></column>
>   <column></column>
>   <column></column>
>   <column></column>
>   <column></column>
>   <column></column>
>   </row>
><row>
>   <column>Sue</column>
>   <column>Bond</column>
>   <column>Dollar Avenue</column>
>   <column>Female</column>
>   <column>01-05-2003</column>
>   <column></column>
></row>
></root>


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