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naveen venkatSubject: How to avoid creating empty elements in XSLT
Author: naveen venkat
Date: 04 Sep 2009 10:36 AM
Hello

I am new to XSLT.

When I use Stylus studio mapper to map node1 from the source XML to
node in destination, i get the following XSLT segment.

<node>
<xsl:value-of select="node1"/>
</node>


How do I avoid node element being created if the node1 is empty or does not exist.

I can use <xsl:if> function, but I have around 400 elements and I would like to avoid doing that.

Appreciate your inputs

Thanks
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(Deleted User) Subject: How to avoid creating empty elements in XSLT
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 14 Sep 2009 11:38 AM
Hi,
if you don't want to add the xsl:if statements you should postprocess the resulting XML with another XSLT stylesheet that strips all the nodes with no content (i.e. an identity transformation with an empty template for the nodes that you know that should be stripped)

Hope this helps,
Alberto
   
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