Re: XSTL stylesheet workarounds for exceptions

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From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
To: Jack Bush <netbeansfan@y...>; butlerdi@g...
Cc: xml-dev@l...
Sent: Thursday, 5 February, 2009 12:26:02 AM
Subject: RE: XSTL stylesheet workarounds for exceptions

<xsl:template match="ns:p[ns:strong='Hobbie:']|ns:p[ns:strong='Hobbies:']">


Now the only question left is the second half ( ii ) of the original post
included below:

   

    ( ii ) I also like to add a default generic value for any missing
element. Say if there are no

    <p><strong>Hobbies:</strong></p> in such document, yet I still would
like to generate a

    null element such as <hobbies>Unknown</hobbies>. 

   
You need to do this at the next level up, where you are applying-templates
to the p elements. Something like

<xsl:variable name="hobbies" select="ns:p[ns:strong='Hobbies:']"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="$hobbies"/>
<xsl:if test="empty($hobbies)">
  ... default output goes here ...
</xsl:if>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/