Can't see anything wrong with this code snippet, perhaps the problem will be
revealed if you try to create a complete (but small) stylesheet that
demonstrates the problem, and post the whole thing.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tran Thanh Dinh [mailto:dinh107@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 15 July 2005 09:50
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  xsl:when, xsl:otherwise question?
> 
> hi,
> 
> I am new in xsl, please help me to figure out why my
> following code doesnt work:
> here's the xml data:
> 
> <pb><e><a>hello</a></e></pb>
> and it can be also <pb><e></e></pb>
> 
> so actually I want to separate 2 cases, one when tag a
> doesnt exist and the other one is when it exists.
> 
> <xsl:choose>
>  <xsl:when test="a">
>   <tr><td>null</td></tr>
>  </xsl:when>
>  <xsl:otherwise>
>   <tr><td>not null</td></tr>
>  </xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> 
> The result I got when tag 'a' exists is ok. I got
> "null" displayed but when tag 'a' doesnt exist, i got
> nothing display.
> 
> could you please let me know if the syntax i used is
> correct and what i am supposed to do please.
> 
> thanks a lot
> 
> Dinh Tran
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
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