Checking for empty values

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Subject: Checking for empty values
From: Madhu Menon <madhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:51:42 +0530

Hello.

Forgive me for asking newbie questions, but it's only because I'm a newbie :)

I want to have my XSL stylesheet evaluate to see if a tag exists or the value is blank. How do I do this using <xsl:if> or <xsl:when> ?

For example, take the following schema:

<library>

<book>
	<name>Hound of the Baskervilles</name>
	<author>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</author>
</book>


<book>
	<name>A Dying man's prayer</name>
</book>


<book>	
	<name>XSLT Programmer's Reference</name>
	<author>Michael Kay</author>
</book>

</library>

In the second record, the <author> data is not available. I want to check for this (or the tags being empty) and then conditionally produce the output. What would be the best way to do this?

Thanks for your help.

Madhu

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Checking for empty values Madhu Menon - Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:51:42 +0530 <= <Possible follow-ups> Kay Michael - Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:05:24 +0100 Juergen Hermann - Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:25:17 +0200 David Carlisle - Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:46:19 GMT Steve Hankin - Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:14:49 +0100

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