Re: how can check whether an attribute exists or not?

To test if attribute href exists in an XML document use

<xsl:when test="@href'">

Russ


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rosa I-Ting Cheng" <Rosa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 4:44 PM
Subject:  how can check whether an attribute exists or not?


> Can anyone please tell me how to test whether an attribute exists? Cos I
> want to test it in a 'when' tags
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="@href=''">
> ....
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise>
> ....
> </xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> And in the XML some tags have the atribute href where as some don't.
> and what i did above didn't work if I didn't have the attribute href="" in
> the XML for the tags that doesn't have the href value.
>
>  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
>


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