Re: how can check whether an attribute exists or not?

Hi,
you can test the href XML element attribute existence by using

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="@href">
 ...
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
...
<xsl:otherwise>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rosa I-Ting Cheng" <Rosa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 4:44 PM
Subject:  how can check whether an attribute exists or not?

> Can anyone please tell me how to test whether an attribute exists? Cos I
> want to test it in a 'when' tags
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="@href=''">
> ....
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise>
> ....
> </xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> And in the XML some tags have the atribute href where as some don't.
> and what i did above didn't work if I didn't have the attribute href="" in
> the XML for the tags that doesn't have the href value.
>
> XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
>


XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list

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