Re: monotonous nbsp coding

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Subject: Re: monotonous nbsp coding
From: Greg Faron <gfaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:58:15 -0700

At 04:36 PM 11/13/2002, you wrote:

Greg Faron <gfaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>    <xsl:if test="string-length() = 0">
                                ^^ Is this a typo?

No. When called without an argument, the context node is converted to a string and used as the argument. There are many alternative ways to test whether the string value of the context node is the empty string, I simply carried the one that the OP used so as not to confuse the reference. Other possibilities include string(.) = '' normalize-space() = '' normalize-space(.) = '' not(string(.)) normalize-space(string-length(.)) = 0 etc.

Wendell posted "not(string())", but according to topxml.com (I know, it's not the canonical source), a call to string() with no arguments always returns the empty string. I haven't verified that one either way...

Actually, I would rather put the "td" element into the named template, like so:

I left it out in case the calling template would care to modify attributes of 'td' such as rowspan or width. Personal choice, I guess.


Greg Faron
Integre Technical Publishing Co.

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Re: monotonous nbsp coding, (continued)
- Greg Faron - Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:02:24 -0500 (EST)
  - Wendell Piez - Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:03:19 -0500 (EST)
    - Wendell Piez - Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:13:39 -0500 (EST)
  - Roger Glover - Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:32:23 -0500 (EST)
    - Greg Faron - Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:54:33 -0500 (EST) <=
    - David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM - Wed, 13 Nov 2002 19:14:47 -0500 (EST)
    - Mike Brown - Wed, 13 Nov 2002 19:43:06 -0500 (EST)
    - Greg Faron - Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:23:22 -0500 (EST)
    - Mike Brown - Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:59:18 -0500 (EST)

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