First of, you XML is not valid. Second if all you need is to ignore
nodes with empty strings it can be done simpler.

	<xsl:template match="/top">
		<xsl:apply-templates/>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template match="*">
		<xsl:if test="normalize-space(.) != ''">
			<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
		</xsl:if>
	</xsl:template>


-----Original Message-----
From: 04083259@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:04083259@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 1:49 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  output node-set

hi

i got the following xml database result from a privious transformation
which contains some  empty nodes :


<top>
   <dig></dig>
   <MTo><MTo>
   <dig></dig>
   <dig>06767</dig>
   <dig>3712</dig>
   <CCTo><CCTo>
   <dig></dig>
   <dig>40</dig>
   <dig>48</dig>
   <dig>120</dig>
   <nondig>-000</nondig>
   <nondig>87</nondig>
   <nondig>8768</nondig>
 </top>


and i am trying from the following template to transform the above
database to a form where we get red of all the empty <dig> elements only
but it has a problem which  i can not figure what was it




 <xsl:template match="path">
 <xsl:for-each select="*">
<xsl:choose>

 <xsl:when test="'self::dig'">
 <xsl:copy-of select="dig[node()]"/>
 </xsl:when>

<xsl:when test="'self::nondig'">
 <xsl:copy-of select="nondig[node()]""/>
 </xsl:when>

<xsl:when test="'self::CCTo'">
<CCTo />
  </xsl:when>


<xsl:when test="'self::MoTo'">
<MoToTo />
  </xsl:when>

</xsl:choose>

</xsl:for-each>

 </xsl:template>
 </xsl:stylesheet>