> <xsl:template match="//GROUP">
is not required..
<xsl:template match="GROUP">
is fine as is..

>   <xsl:if test="./@name">
is same as
  <xsl:if test="@name">

> It never reaches the 'Do some stuff' line even though GROUP possesses a
> 'Bob'
> attribute, why?

You do not have an attribute 'Bob'. You have an attribute called 'name'
which has a value of 'Bob'

It depends what you want to do from here.
if you want to test if there is an attribute called 'name'
then you do what you did.

If you want to test specifically for the value 'Bob'.
then you do
 <xsl:if test="@name = 'Bob'">

Apart from that your code is perfectly fine and you should probably explain
a more of what you need.
May be your matching a wrong node???

Cheers
Vasu
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Curry" <andrew.curry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 3:19 PM
Subject: RE: [xsl] Attributes?


> try
> <xsl:template match="//GROUP">
>   <xsl:if test="./@name">
>     Do some stuff.
>   </xsl:if>
> </xsl:template>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tsterlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tsterlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 01 July 2004 15:14
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Attributes?
>
>
>
>
> How do I test for the presence of an attribute?  I have a tag:
>
> <GROUP name="Bob">Some verbage here</GROUP>
>
> I'm trying this command:
>
> <xsl:template match="GROUP">
>   <xsl:if test="@name">
>     Do some stuff.
>   </xsl:if>
> </xsl:template>
>
> It never reaches the 'Do some stuff' line even though GROUP possesses a
> 'Bob'
> attribute, why?
>
>
>
>
>
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