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Thanks,


I got it.

Dongling

--- Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dongling,
> 
> At 04:19 PM 10/23/2003, you wrote:
> >I need to check if a meember doesn't exist or its
> >value equals "N" then do something. How can I do
> that?
> >
> >I have something here but didn't work. Please
> advise
> >
> ><xsl:when test="not(./*[name(.) = 'Shared']) |
> >(./Shared/text() ='N')">
> 
> This doesn't work because the union operator "|"
> works only on node sets, 
> whereas the two expressions on either side of it
> here both return Booleans. 
> You can't unify two Booleans.
> 
> I think you want
> 
> test="not(Shared) or Shared='N'"
> 
> ...or (unabbreviated form of the same)...
> 
> test="not(child::Shared) or child::Shared='N'"
> 
> Translated into English, this reads "when there is
> no "Shared" element 
> child or when a "Shared" element child has (string)
> value = 'N'.
> 
> Cheers,
> Wendell
> 
> 
>
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