Re: selecting then conditional test

Jason,

>My xsl is as follows:
>
><xsl:template match="alljobs">
><xsl:for-each select="job/item1[not(.=following::job/item1)]">
>  <xsl:sort/>
>  <xsl:if test="ancestor::job/item1!='N/A'">
>    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>  </xsl:if>
></xsl:for-each>
>
>I've also tried: <xsl:if test="//item1!='N/A'">
>
>Unfortunately these don't work. I eliminate the duplicates and sort it but
>the if statement doesn't work. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your help!

The second (//item1 != 'N/A') doesn't work because you're testing there
whether *any* item1 in the document doesn't equal 'N/A', which is always true.

The first does work, at least in Saxon, although you could simplify things
by only selecting those item1s that don't equal N/A in the first place:

<xsl:for-each select="job/item1[not(. = 'N/A' or . = following::job/item1)]">
  <xsl:sort/>
  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>

This produces only 'one' and 'two' with both Saxon and Xalan (although with
no carriage return between them - you have to add that yourself using
xsl:text).

I hope that helps,

Jeni

Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/


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