On May 1, 12:18 pm, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> KW wrote:
> >     <xsl:when test="person/email != ''>
> > The first test is attempting to determine if the element is not
> > "empty", but with the example xml, it is evaluating to true because
> > the test is seeing the newline created from the Email element being on
> > two lines. I would like to evaulate a node like Email so that even if
> > it is on two lines, there is still "no email address" in the element.
>
> Use
>    <xsl:when test="normalize-space(person/email) != ''">
>
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>
>         Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
>        http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Thanks. That did it. However, I also figured out that <xsl:strip-space
elements="*" /> works to remove all whitespace nodes on a global
level. Then, I would not need to use the normalize-space function.
This would be handy, especially if I have alot of elements that fall
into the same situation.

But, I have another question. Is there a better test expression to use
in order to figure out if an element is empty as I have defined it? Or
is this approach commonly used?

Kevin