Not sure why I was using $ when I should have been using &.  But it still 
didn't help.

I tried:

<xsl:if test=". != '&#xD;&#xA;&#x9;&#x9;&#x9;&#x9;'">

and it still doesn't work.

Tom

"tshad" <toms@p...> wrote in message 
news:%239H4$xSIKHA.4168@T......
>I also tried:
>
> <xsl:if test=". != '$#13;$#10;$#9;$#9;$#9;$#9;'">
>
> Also didn't work.
>
> Tom
> "tshad" <toms@p...> wrote in message 
> news:uWPMHwSIKHA.3736@T......
>>I tried:
>>
>> <xsl:if test=". != '$#13$#10$#9$#9$#9$#9'">
>>
>> But that didn't work.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> "tshad" <toms@p...> wrote in message 
>> news:Oy4rSiSIKHA.1340@T......
>>>I just ran into an issue where my xml files have a carriage return, line 
>>>feed and 6 tabs inside my tags.
>>>
>>> Normally I would see something like:
>>>
>>> <address></address>
>>>
>>> but now I seem to be seeing:
>>>
>>> <address>0D0A09090909</address>
>>>
>>> Where 0D is a carriage return, 0A is a line feed and 09 is a tab.
>>>
>>> I normally test for a blank fiield like so:
>>>
>>> <xsl:when test=". != ''">
>>>
>>> but this doesn't work for this.  How would I test for these special 
>>> characters?
>>>
>>> I am trying to get the people who create the form to fix it, but until 
>>> then I still need to process the xml files.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>
>>
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