On Apr 2, 6:08=A0pm, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> khalil...@hotmail.com wrote:
> > If I have an xml data such as the following:
>
> > <csv>
>
> > <line>
> > <field></field>
> > </line>
>
> > <line>
> > <field></field>
> > </line>
>
> > <line>
> > <field>2</field>
> > </line>
>
> > <line>
> > <field>3</field>
> > </line>
>
> > </csv>
>
> > I need to go though all <line> elements and get the first NON-Empty
> > <field>
> > in the example above, it should print 2
>
> =A0 =A0(/csv/line/field[node()])[1]
> selects the first field element that is not empty.
>
> > I need the solution in xsl 2.0
>
> =A0 =A0<xsl:stylesheet
> =A0 =A0 =A0xmlns:xsl=3D"http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> =A0 =A0 =A0version=3D"2.0">
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0<xsl:template match=3D"/">
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<xsl:value-of select=3D"(/csv/line/field[node()])[1]"/>
> =A0 =A0 =A0</xsl:template>
>
> =A0 =A0</xsl:stylesheet>
>
> That would work with XSLT 1.0 as well.
>
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> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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thanks Martin for your help