Re: if child element does not exist stop generation

> Hi,
>          You can do this using:
>
><xsl:if test="*[self::length]"> or

That is more easily written as

<xsl:if test="length">

>  or
>
> <xsl:if test="*[name() = 'length']">

"length" is short for
   "child::length"
   (set of 'length' element children of context node)

"*[self::length]" is short for
   "child::*[self::length]
   (set of element children that have a 'length' element on the self axis)

"*[name() = 'length']" is short for
   "child::*[name() = 'length']"
   (set of element children that return 'length' as the result
    of the name() function with an implicit argument of "self::node()")

Cheers,
Wendell

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