RE: Simple Problem

At 28 Apr 2000 10:45 PDT, Mark Swardstrom wrote:
 > So, my question remains, how can I treat elements without explicit string 
 > data (such as <root> or <node> below) differently than those with data?

Every element node has a string value that is the concatenation of all
of its text node descendants.  You appear to be only interested in
text node children, and don't appear to want to count text nodes
containing only whitespace characters (e.g. the line feed and space
characters between the <root> and <node> start tags in your sample
document).

Try this:

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<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <!-- Strip text nodes containing only whitespace characters -->
  <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

  <!-- Match elements that DO NOT have text node children -->
  <xsl:template match="*[not(child::text())]">
    <p><xsl:value-of select="name()"/> has no (non-stripped) text children.</p>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:template>

  <!-- Match elements that aren't matched by higher-priority rule -->
  <xsl:template match="*">
    <p><xsl:value-of select="name()"/> has (non-stripped) text children.</p>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:template>

  <!-- Suppress text nodes because we just want our messages -->
  <xsl:template match="text()"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>
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Regards,


Tony Graham
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