try

<xsl:if test="./person[@name='max']/tel">
....
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "belangour abdessamad" <abdessamad.belangour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "XSL-list" <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 10:54 AM
Subject:  a node child


> Hi,
> Suppose we are located on a node. How could we test the existence of a
given
> child node ?
>
> example: how to test that "eric" has a telephone and "max"  has not.?
> -------------------------------------------------------
> <persons>
>     <person name="eric">
>         <tel>003366778899</tel>
>     </person>
>     <person name="max"/>
> <persons>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Thanks.
>
>
>  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
>


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