Re: Choose Test for Emtpy element

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Subject: Re: Choose Test for Emtpy element
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:30:41 -0500

Karl,

Try test="normalize-space(@availableInventory)"

This is a FAQ. When asked, it is often unclear what the questioner means by "empty". In your case, having said it may be padded with spaces is helpful: normalize-space trims leading and trailing whitespace (and collapses internal whitespace into single spaces) so it corrects for this.

It's also a bit confusing since "empty element" is actually a technical term in XML (and even as such can mean different things in different contexts, e.g. well-formed XML vs. "empty" in reference to how an element is declared in a DTD or schema), but you don't quite mean that ... here, it's not even an element, it's an attribute.

HTH--
Wendell

At 12:51 PM 3/14/2003, you wrote:

I am performing a CHOOSE | WHERE | OTHERWISE ... the test for this choose is
to see whether or not my @AvailableInventory is '' (empty).  It doesn't seem
to work, but indeed there is no real value in this attribute.  I'm thinking
it is padded with spaces.  So how would I perform my test, but trim all the
spaces... or is there another test for "Empty"?


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Choose Test for Emtpy element Karl Stubsjoen - Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:48:40 -0500 (EST) Mike Brown - Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:13:03 -0500 (EST) J.Pietschmann - Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:23:28 -0500 (EST) Wendell Piez - Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:30:26 -0500 (EST) <= <Possible follow-ups> Passin, Tom - Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:00:28 -0500 (EST)

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