Shaaweet! Worked like a charm. Thank you.

I was close on my own with
<xsl:if test="'Smith'=Form/Names/LastName or 
test=not(Form/Names/LastName)">
which did not work.


On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:12:35 -0400
  Wendell Piez <wapiez@m...> wrote:
> Lee,
> 
> You can test whether a node set is empty by using the 
>not() operator, as in
> 
> test="not(Form/Names/LastName)"
> 
> which would be true if no LastName elements existed. You 
>could connect that with an 'or':
> 
> <xsl:if test="'Smith'=Form/Names/LastName or 
>not(Form/Names/LastName)">
> 
> This passes if 'Smith' is found as a value on a node in 
>the set (Form/Names/LastName), or if that set is empty 
>(no such nodes exist).
> 
> That may not be exactly what you want, however. You need 
>to specify exactly what you mean by the "non-existence of 
>the node <LastName>".
> 
> Cheers,
> Wendell
> 
> At 04:13 PM 8/6/2009, you wrote:
>>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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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