RE: Supress

> <xsl:if test="not(.//text() = '')">
>
> would seem to do the trick, no? ie, grab all the text nodes and see if
> the result is better than an empty string.
>
> Sebastian Rahtz

Shame on you, Sebastian - and you can't even blame the heatwave.

.//text() = '' is true if the context node has a descendant text node whose
string-value is empty. But a text node always contains one or more
characters, so this is never true, therefore "not(.//text() = '')" is always
true.

Mike Kay
Software AG


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