Joerg

I would try your suggestion but I should have
added that there are other things I need to
do inside the for-each so the filter
on the for-each would restrict the availability
of the returned result set ....

 <xsl:for-each select="NodeSomething"> 
	.
	.
	.
	<!-- do some other xslt things with all the other nodes and their
attributes... etc --> 	.
	.
	.
 <!-- just format the value of attribute2 if in face attribute2 is non
blank --> 
 <xsl:if test="./@attribute2 != ''"> 
 	<xsl:value-of select="format-number(./@attribute2,"#,###.00")"/> 
 </xsl:if> 
 </xsl:for-each> 

therefore...

	I need a less code bloat filter on attribute2 when it comes time in
	the syntax to begin working with attribute2....



 <xsl:for-each select="NodeSomething"> 
	.
	.
	.
	<!-- do some other xslt things with all the other nodes and their
attributes... etc --> 
	.
	.
	.
      <!-- just format the value of attribute2 if in face attribute2 is non
blank --> 
 	<xsl:value-of select="[./@attribute2 !=
'']format-number(./@attribute2,"#,###.00")"/> 
 </xsl:for-each> 



|-----Original Message-----
|From: owner-xsl-list@[...].com
|[mailto:owner-xsl-list@[...].com]On Behalf Of Jörg Heinicke
|Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 3:07 PM
|To: xsl-list@[...].com
|Subject: Re: [xsl] Can you embed a filter test ahead of the
|format-number function in the xsl:value-of method
|
|
|Why not adding this filter directly to for-each?
|
|<xsl:for-each select="NodeSomething[@attribute2 != '']"> 
|     <xsl:value-of select="...."/> 
|</xsl:for-each> 
|
|Joerg
|
|jdgarrett@[...].net wrote:
|
|>  Given the following XML snippet
|> 
|> 
|>  <NodeSomething  attribute1="1234" attribute2="3">5678</NodeSomething>
|>  <NodeSomething  attribute1="12"   attribute2="">Abc</NodeSomething>
|>  <NodeSomething  attribute1="1256" attribute2="45">456</NodeSomething>
|>  <NodeSomething  attribute1="1298" attribute2="">8899</NodeSomething>
|> 
|>  I would like to change the following XSLT (which works but is code bloat)
|> 
|>  <xsl:for-each select="NodeSomething">
|>  <xsl:if test="./@attribute2 != ''">
|>  	<xsl:value-of select="format-number(./@attribute2,"#,###.00")"/>
|>  </xsl:if>
|>  </xsl:for-each>
|> 
|> 
|>  to the following (so that I can optimize the code)
|> 
|>  <xsl:for-each select="NodeSomething">
|>  	<xsl:value-of select="[./@attribute2 !=
|>  '']format-number(./@attribute2,"#,###.00")"/>
|>  </xsl:for-each>
|> 
|> 
|>  is it possible to embed a filter test ahead of the format-number
|function in
|>  the xsl:value-of so
|>  that if the filter test was true then and only then it would call the
|>  format-number
|>  function on the selected attribute rather than doing the xsl:if test and
|>  then
|>  calling the xsl:value-of method ??
|> 
|>  As you know, if attribute2 is empty then I get a NaN which format-number
|>  returns NaN
|>  rather than just nothing ....
|> 
|>  Please advise
|>  Thank You
|>  JGarrett
|> 
|> 
|> 
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