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Hi,
I'm working on someone else's code at the moment, and the author uses this construction very often: <xsl:when test="string-length(anElement) > 0"> statements <xsl:otherwise> 'else' statements I *think* what he's trying to do is to test if anElement is empty or not, and act accordingly. But couldn't you rewrite that as <xsl:when test="anElement"> ... <xsl:otherwise> ... (as someone suggested a few threads ago)? Or does the string-length() method check for something that the second method doesn't cover? Thanks, Ralph
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