RE: not matching empty text nodes.

Try

xsl:template match="/album/photos/photo/caption[text()!='']"

and

<xsl:template match="/album/photos/photo/*[text()!='']">
    <tr valign="top">
        <td class="label" align="right"><xsl:value-of select="name()"/>:</td>
        <td class="caption"><xsl:value-of select="." /></td>
    </tr>
</xsl:template>

HTH,

Ken Ross
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-----Original Message-----
From: Terence [mailto:tk.lists@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, 6 February 2003 11:03 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  not matching empty text nodes.


This is obviously a newbie question.

Say I have

     <xsl:template match="/album/photos/photo/caption">
         <tr valign="top">
             <td class="label" align="right">caption:</td>
             <td class="caption"><xsl:value-of select="." /></td>
         </tr>
     </xsl:template>

My problem is that I _don't_ want to execute this template if there is 
no text content in the "caption" element.








Another question...

how do I provide a one-template solution to all elements which have the 
same requirements as caption?
For instance, there are more of these...

     <xsl:template match="/album/photos/photo/description">
         <tr valign="top">
             <td class="label" align="right">description:</td>
             <td class="caption"><xsl:value-of select="." /></td>
         </tr>
     </xsl:template>

     <xsl:template match="/album/photos/photo/location">
         <tr valign="top">
             <td class="label" align="right">location:</td>
             <td class="caption"><xsl:value-of select="." /></td>
         </tr>
     </xsl:template>


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