RE: XSL Problem

I don't believe it is possible to wrap a border around a <td> element that
does not contain any content.  The closest you can get is &#xA0; , which is
esentially the same as the character ' '.  Why can't you use the &#xA0;, the
cell will still *appear* empty to you.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrea Racca [mailto:racca@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:41 AM
To: xsl-list
Subject: RE:  XSL Problem

There isn't possible to have border with empty cell? hi

> In XML, you really only have a non-existent node, a node that contains no
> value, or a node that has some value(including whitespace).  So the idea
of
> a db NULL on an attribute, would probably be mapped in your case as
Year="".
> In this case you would do the following:
> 
> <xsl:choose> 
>   <xsl:when test="@Year = ''"> </xsl:when>
>   <xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select = '@Year'/></xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> 
> The   will make the cell so it is not empty, therefore you will get the

> border.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrea Racca [mailto:racca@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:13 AM
> To: xsl-list
> Subject:  XSL Problem
> 
> In xsl, I have a sql query in a xml template. I view the results with a
xsl
> file in html.
> I like to use the next lines to test if the sql field named 'Year' was
NULL
> I like to view a empty cell on my table. If not I like to see the value of
> the field:
> 
> <xsl:choose> 
>   <xsl:when test="@Year = NULL">Empty</xsl:when>
>   <xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select = '@Year'/></xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> 
> What is the correct syntax to test 'NULL' value?
> 
> It's possible to force the border of my cell if the body is Empty?
> Thank's a lot
> 
> andrea