I think you want to test whether there are any non-white descendant text
nodes that are not descendants of a child TLStyle.

In 2.0 that's

test="(.//text() except TLStyle//text())[normalize-space()]"

or in 1.0

test="(text() | *[not(self::TLStyle)]//text())[normalize-space()]"

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

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emily.Garrett@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Emily.Garrett@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 07 September 2006 20:36
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Ignoring a child element
> 
> 
> I'm trying to weed out a <para> element that does not have 
> any content.
> However, it does have a TLStyle element which would style the 
> content if it existed.  The XML table entry looks like this:
> 
> 
>                               <entry colname="1" morerows="0"
> align="left" valign="top">
>                                  <para>
>                                     <TLStyle>BodyText</TLStyle>
>                                  </para>
>                               </entry>
> 
> I tried using normalize-space(.), but since the TLStyle 
> element is in there, it tests true.  normalize-space(.) = BodyText
> 
> 							<xsl:choose>
> 	
> <xsl:when test="normalize-space(.)">
> 	
> <xsl:apply-templates select="current()"/>
> 	
> </xsl:when>
> 
> The following code also tests true, but I'm not sure why.  I 
> want it to ignore what's in TLStyle and tell me if there is 
> any other content inside of <entry>.
> 
>                                             <xsl:variable 
> name="withoutTLStyle" select="node()[not(self::TLStyle)]"/>
> 							<xsl:choose>
> 	
> <xsl:when test="normalize-space($withoutTLStyle)">
> 	
> <xsl:apply-templates select="current()"/>
> 	
> </xsl:when>
>                                                 <xsl:otherwise>
>                                                 <!--do 
> something else because it's empty-->
>                                                 </xsl:otherwise>
>                                           </xsl:choose>
> 
> normalize-space($withoutTLStyle) is also = BodyText.      
> 
> Any thoughts on how to conquer this?
> 
> Emily Garrett