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Re: How to get boolean (true/false) values as boolean variables?

From: "Anthony Jones" <Ant@------------.--->
To: NULL
Date: 9/15/2007 1:44:00 PM


"David Lowndes" <DavidL@e...> wrote in message
news:7gvle3hb6skovc69uflv52k4p85dvav32f@4......
> Currently I have an XML file with what are really boolean attribute
> values being passed numerically as 0 or 1:
>
> <MyElem flag="1"/>
>
> and in the XSLT I get the value like this:
>
>   <xsl:param name='MyFlag'
> select='number($MyDocument/MyDoc/MyElem/@flag)' />
>
> It's more appropriate if I represent the flag as a boolean:
>
> <MyElem flag="true"/>
>


Why?

I use 0 and -1.  These are the values that I find implicit coerce to boolean
the best in majority of languages I use.

> .. but I can't find what the equivalent would be to get the boolean
> value variable in the XSLT.
>
> Is there a way of doing what I want?

An alternative is simply not have the flag element present at all in the XML
if its value is to be treated as false.  I find that to be the most XSL
friendly approach.

-- 
Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET

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