Re: Variable: true or false

Hi Tom,

> I do the transform on this XSL and get "true". I would have expected
> "false". Thought the boolean of an empty object would always be
> false.

You are right.  Setting a variable without using any content or a
select attribute should set the variable to the empty string (see
third bullet point at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#variable-values).

> Using Xerces 1.4 and Xalan 1.1

I can only guess that this version of Xalan was buggy in this regard.
I think that Xalan 2 has been available for a while now - it's
definitely worth upgrading.  It tests fine with this version.

I hope that helps,

Jeni

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