Re: xsl:apply-templates behaving differently depending

> I have noticed that there is a case where the "__NOTHING__" replacement 
> is being made and it shouldn't be: when there is no text in the tag but 
> there are child nodes, for example:

> <td><img src="x" /></td>

there is always some text in a tag (the element name)  the content of an
element is never _in_ the element's tag it is between the end tag and
the start tag. That's the whole essence of tagged markup: content is
between tags, markup (including attributions) goes inside tags.

XSLT of course has no direct access to the content at all.

You want to say NOTHING if teh td has no child nodes so:

<xsl:template match="td[not(node())]">
  <td>__NOTHING__</td>
</xsl:template>


David

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