RE: [xsl] Selecting Parent Nodes with Empty Children

["Hellstern, Manny" <manny dot hellstern at mustangeng dot com>]

I tried the syntax in my jscript code but it generated an error.  It looks
like it doesn't like the "-" in normalize-space.  The expression
"//VALUE[normalize-space(.)='']" works when I check it using an XPATH
tester.  Is there some type of character escaping that I may need to do to
use the expression in var
objNodes=objXML.selectNodes("//VALUE[normalize-space(.)='']")?

-----Original Message-----
From: J.Pietschmann [mailto:j3322ptm@yahoo.de]
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 3:35 PM
To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
Subject: Re: [xsl] Selecting Parent Nodes with Empty Children


Hellstern, Manny wrote:
> Sorry for the poor phrasing.  What I'd like to do is use an XPath
expression
> in some script to extract a nodeset of ONLY those nodes that meet the
> criteria. In otherwords, can an XPath expression look something like
> 
> 	var objNodes = objXML.selectNodes("//VALUE[normalize-space(.)='']")
> 

Yes, this will get you
   <VALUE>dummy text</VALUE>
   <VALUE>more text</VALUE>

> -----Original Message-----
It's considered good netiquette to trim unnecessary quoted
text.

J.Pietschmann


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