RE: Not Node() but string onlye

What I'm after is the value of the text node when there are no child other
(what do you call these?) nodes... but, if there are child nodes, then I am
interested in the value of one of them, in my case, the value of the child
node defaultvalue.  Take this example then:

<mynode>A text Node</mynode>

<mynode>
    <node_a>could be anything</node_a>
    <node_b>could also be anything</node_b>
    <defaultvalue>this is what I want</defaultvalue>
</mynode>



-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 10:14 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  Not Node() but string onlye



>
> I am using this:
> <xsl:when test="not(node()) and string(.)">
>
> To test if a node has "No Child Nodes" but contains "String only".

If an element has no children, then its string value will always be "".

> So example:
>
> <!-- This should FAIL above test -->
> <mynode>
>     I hope
> </mynode>
>

Perhaps you are overlooking that the element <mynode> has one text node
child.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/