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Really short quick question!!!

How can can I say:
if the attribute of my <section> tag (got with "../section/section") has an attribute called "archive" and it's = "true" then "do something..."

for example the section tag will look like this

<section id="111" archive="true">
....
....
.....
<section>

dfiala13

in xsl I assume?

<xsl:for-each select="../section/section" />

<xsl:if test="@archive = 'true' />

</xsl:if>

</xsl:for-each>

dfiala13

shuld be <xsl:if test="@archive = 'true'" />

chrisV

ASKER

Sorry mate but with this code:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

                  <xsl:when test="../section/section">
                  <xsl:if test="@archive = 'true'" />
                        <a>

                              <xsl:attribute name="href">
                                    <xsl:value-of select="dirname"/>
                              </xsl:attribute>
                              <xsl:value-of select="title"/>
                        </a><br/>
                  </xsl:if>

                  </xsl:when>
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I get this error:
End tag 'xsl:if' does not match the start tag 'xsl:when'. Error processing resource 'file:///C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/inc/hs~premium_transform.xsl'. Line 13, Position 6

</xsl:if>

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Do you know what is wrong?

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chrisV

ASKER

Oh if you are still there is there a way of saying if an attribute exists

Something like:
.....
ifexists(@archive) then..
....

bacause some <section> tags are like:
<section id="111">....</section>

and some are like:
<section id="222" archive="true" >....</section>

and some are like:
<section id="222" archive="false" >....</section>

Sorry!! and thanks!!

dfiala13

xsl is very forgiving so you can just check if the value of the attribute has any length, if it doesn't it doesn't exist (or has no value):

<xsl:if test="string-length(@archive) > 0>

</xsl:if>

here's a handy reference that I've used for years
http://nwalsh.com/docs/tutorials/xsl/xsl/slides.html

chrisV

ASKER

Thanks mate, have a good weekend