Thanks Gary and Kevin - that worked.

Hardy Merrill

>>> kevin.rodgers@xxxxxxx 10/22/04 05:08PM >>>
Gary Hegenbart writes:
> I'm not an expert, but you need to check to see if the node name
> starts with ERR. Assuming you are working in the 'user' node, you
can
> try this:
> 
> <xsl:if test="count(./*[starts-with(name(), 'ERR')])&gt;0">
>   <!-- do something for an error node -->
> </xsl:if>
> 
> It counts all child nodes whose name starts with ERR, the tests if
the
> count is greater than

Yes, but you don't need to count them.  The set of nodes that satisfy
the condition is automatically converted to a boolean value; only an
empty set is considered to be false:

<xsl:if test="./*[starts-with(name(), 'ERR')]">
  <!-- do something for a node with errors -->
</xsl:if>

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Conditional-Processing-with-xsl:if 
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#function-boolean 

I'm not an expert either, so here's my followup question: what is the
point of specifying "./" in the above expression?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers