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thank you very much for your response,<br />
yes, it's working now.<br />
<br />
so you like using string-length(normalize-sp<wbr />ace(@name)<wbr />) = 0]'<br />
how come? what's the danger in just using &quot;&quot;&nbsp;?<br />
what if I have one common code and I pass the atttribute name to find, so sometime this parameter can be empty and sometime can actually contain a string, either way I need to find the correspondent node, what's the best practice?<br />
e.g.:<br />
DOMNode := RXMLDoc.SelectNode('//a/b[<wbr />@name=&quot;' + parpassed + '&quot;']');<br />
parpassed can be &quot;&quot;&nbsp;or &quot;somename&quot;<br />
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thank you very much for your response,
yes, it's working now.

so you like using string-length(normalize-space(@name)) = 0]'
how come? what's the danger in just using "" ?
what if I have one common code and I pass the atttribute name to find, so sometime this parameter can be empty and sometime can actually contain a string, either way I need to find the correspondent node, what's the best practice?
e.g.:
DOMNode := RXMLDoc.SelectNode('//a/b[@name="' + parpassed + '"']');
parpassed can be "" or "somename"



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&gt; how come? what's the danger in just using &quot;&quot;&nbsp;?<br />
<br />
there is no danger, but I explicitely exclude attributes containing only whitespace as well this way<br />
<br />
your example with parpassed should work
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> how come? what's the danger in just using "" ?

there is no danger, but I explicitely exclude attributes containing only whitespace as well this way

your example with parpassed should work

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Gertone, BTW congrats for your annual EE award!
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Gertone, BTW congrats for your annual EE award!

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Hello group,<br />
<br />
How can I find the node &lt;b&gt; that contains the empty name attribute?<br />
&nbsp;&lt;a&gt;<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;&lt;b name=&quot;&quot; code=&quot;0&quot;&gt;<br />
&nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;<br />
&nbsp;&lt;a&gt;<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;&lt;b name=&quot;somename&quot; code=&quot;0&quot;&gt;<br />
&nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;<br />
&nbsp;<br />
I'm using XPath with XMLDocument<br />
&nbsp;DOMNode := RXMLDoc.SelectNode('//a/b[<wbr />@name=&quot;&quot;']<wbr />');<br />
<br />
Thanks.
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Hello group,

How can I find the node <b> that contains the empty name attribute?
 <a>
   <b name="" code="0">
 </a>
 <a>
   <b name="somename" code="0">
 </a>
 
I'm using XPath with XMLDocument
 DOMNode := RXMLDoc.SelectNode('//a/b[@name=""']');

Thanks.

XPath find an empty attribute

Extensible Markup Language (XML) refers to the encoding of documents such that they can be read by both machines and humans. XML documents use tags to show the beginning and end of a set of data. XML is used extensively on websites to show volumes of data, and is the default for a number of office productivity suites. This topic includes discussions of XML-related technologies, such as XQuery (the XML Query language), XPath (the XML Path language), XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations), XLink (the XML Linking language) and XPointer (the XML Pointer language).