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Re: reesult tree fragment interpretation puzzle

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Mike,

> Since result tree fragments are always true, it brings to light some
> problems in my older code, where I did stuff like this:
> 
> <xsl:variable name="some_XHTML">
>   <xsl:apply-templates select="/path/to/some/nodes"/>
> </xsl:variable>
> 
> <xsl:if test="$some_XHTML">
>   <!-- only do this stuff if some XHTML was generaated -->
> </xsl:if>
> 
> My fragment may only have element nodes in it, and thus would have an
> empty string value. There doesn't seem to be any way to test for this.

Doesn't 
  <xsl:if test="string($some_XHTML)">
solve this?

Cheers,
Oliver


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