Oh, I forgot to mention why it isn't working.

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

This converts the string 'self::dig' to a boolean, which is always true
because the string isn't empty. You meant test="self::dig". It then looks
for a child of the dig element called dig, and doesn't find one, so outputs
nothing.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 04083259@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:04083259@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 01 April 2005 19:49
> 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>