RE: selecting boolean from a choose.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard von Keyserling [mailto:rvonkeys@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 6:41 PM
> To: xsl-list-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  selecting boolean from a choose.
> 
> I am interested setting a variable in my stylesheet to
> contain a boolean value.  The value is set based on a
> choose statement inside the variable declaration,
> which looks for the existence or a particular node.  I
> am only aware of being able to select text out of a
> choose statement, via the use of <xsl:text/> or
> <xsl:value-of/>.  Is there a way to select true() of
> false().  Of course, I can use text values, such as 0
> or 1, but I would like to use the built-in type if
> possible. 
> 
> <!-- code which will set the variable to the string
> values of "true" or "false", not the booleans true()
> or false() -->
> <xsl:variable name="site-alert">
> <xsl:choose>
> 	<xsl:when
> test="/document/content-collection/site-alert"><xsl:value-of
> select="true()"/></xsl:when>
> 	<xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of
> select="false()"/></xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:variable>

If your goal is to be able to subsequently get appropriate behavior out of
constructs like
   <xsl:if test="$site-alert">...</xsl:if>
then
   <xsl:variable name="site-alert"
select="/document/content-collection/site-alert"/>
should suffice.

Ed Blachman
Trellix Corporation

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