I have one more problem. I also need to test for the 
non-existence of the node <LastName> using an "or" on the 
"if" statement.

So something like <xsl:if 
test="'Smith'=Form/Names/LastName or ">

Thanks.



On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:10:40 -0500
  "Lee" <lee@h...> wrote:
> Thank you. Your example got me where I needed to be. 
>It's often the syntax that trips up beginners.
> 
> <xsl:if test="'Smith'=Form/Names/LastName">
> 
> 
> On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 21:33:49 +0200
>  Michael Ludwig <milu71@g...> wrote:
>> Lee schrieb am 04.08.2009 um 14:13:12 (-0500):
>>> 
>>> I have a block of xml that looks like the following.
>>> 
>>>  <Form>
>>>  <Names>
>>>   <LastName>Jones</LastName>
>>>   <LastName>Smith</LastName>
>>>   <LastName>Anderson</LastName>
>>>   </Names>
>>>   </form>
>> 
>> Not well-formed :-)
>> 
>>> I need to display blocks of code only if text matches 
>>>the 
>>> text in any of the three nodes(or more) in LastName. So 
>>> you may have a block of code that should display only if 
>>> "Jones" is in the above nodes.
>> 
>> michael@wladimir:~/win-dev/XSLT :-) expand -t2 lee.xml
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <Form>
>>  <Names>
>>    <LastName>Jones</LastName>
>>    <LastName>Smith</LastName>
>>    <LastName>Anderson</LastName>
>>  </Names>
>> </Form>
>> michael@wladimir:~/win-dev/XSLT :-) expand -t2 lee.xsl 
>> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>>  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>> 
>>  <xsl:param name="in" select="'Jones'"/>
>> 
>>  <xsl:template match="Form">
>>    <xsl:if test="$in = Names/LastName">
>>      <Match><xsl:copy-of select="$in"/></Match>
>>    </xsl:if>
>>  </xsl:template>
>> 
>> </xsl:stylesheet>
>> michael@wladimir:~/win-dev/XSLT :-) xsltproc lee.xsl 
>>lee.xml
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <Match>Jones</Match>
>> michael@wladimir:~/win-dev/XSLT :-) xsltproc 
>>--stringparam in x lee.xsl lee.xml
>> michael@wladimir:~/win-dev/XSLT :-) # no match, no 
>>output
>> 
>> Michael Ludwig
>> 
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