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If you are in a context where it makes sense to do <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> <!-- or whatever instead of * --> then empty(.//text()) is enough David On 2 October 2016 at 13:15, Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've inherited some code that has this type of check to determine if an > element with arbitrary possible subelements has completely empty text > content: > > normalize-space(string-join($context//text(), '')) != '' > > In XSLT 2 I'm pretty sure there's a simpler and/or more efficient way to > do this. > > > Is there a better way to do this and if so, what is it? > > Thanks, > > Eliot > -- > Eliot Kimber > http://contrext.com
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