Yep, that's why it was so confusing...
I'm using msxml3.dll

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: lunes, 17 de septiembre de 2001 10:45
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Non-existing node



> Well, I already knew that ;)
>  The problem is that this is true for a non-existing node:
> <xsl:if test="SomeNode!=''">
> So the value returned must be "something"...

which system are you using?
That test should return false (and saxon and msxsl do the right thing)

SomeNode!=''

see the XPath spec:

SomeNode!=''

s true if and only if there is a node in the node set selected by
SomeNode such that that node has string vale != ''.
If the node set is empty clearly there is no node in the set with this
propoerty so the test is false.

David

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