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Re: Are there 'Null' and 'not equal to' test?

From: Peter Flynn <peter.no-sp@-.--------.-->
To: NULL
Date: 1/3/2005 10:46:00 PM
Porthos wrote:

> Are there 'Null' and 'not equal to' operator that I can use in xsl:if
> statements?  

<xsl:if test="@title"> means "true if the title attribute is specified"
(either physically present or given as a default in the DTD/Schema)

<xsl:if test="@title != 'foo'"> is the inequality operator

> I assume that there must be, but I can't figure out the syntax.

Did you try reading the XSLT spec? Sec 9.1 Conditional Processing with
xsl:if has a link to the relevant section of XPath, productions 14 and
21-24, which include the inequality operator:

[23]    EqualityExpr       ::=          RelationalExpr  
                        | EqualityExpr '=' RelationalExpr       
                        | EqualityExpr '!=' RelationalExpr

Finding the existence syntax is admittedly a little more tricky: it's
implicit in the handling of node-sets and Boolean values: "a node-set 
is true if and only if it is non-empty", so a test for a (non-existent)
title attribute will return False.

///Peter
-- 
"The cat in the box is both a wave and a particle"
      -- Terry Pratchett, introducing quantum physics in _The Authentic Cat_


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