I often write select="(pages, 0)[1]"

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Rodgers [mailto:kevin.rodgers@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 03 February 2005 00:24
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  select="if (subelement) then subelement else 'string'"
> 
> Currently I call a template with this parameter:
> 
>     <xsl:with-param name="page-count"
>        select="if (pages) then pages else '0'"/>
> 
> Is there a simpler or more efficient way to provide '0' when the
> pages subelement isn't present (or 0, since the template outputs
> it via xsl:value-of)?
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Kevin Rodgers