I solved it, I was working in the wrong place in the code. I have been staring at this stuff too long.

I am try filter out <name> elements that are blank.

I have the following xml

<logicresponse>
<results>
<resultslist xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<contact><name>Bill Smith</name>
<phone>(603)555-8638 14</phone>
</contact>
<contact>
<name>John Harrington</name>
<phone>(603)555-8638</phone>
</contact><contact>
<name>Matt Hill</name>
<phone>(603)555-8638</phone>
</contact>
<contact><name>Ron Davis</name>
<phone>(603)555-8638 12</phone>
</contact>
<contact>
<name>Steve Jones</name>
<phone>(603)555-8638</phone>
</contact>
<contact>
<name> </name>
<phone> </phone>
</contact>
<contact>
<name> </name>
<phone> </phone>
</contact>
<contact>
<name> </name>
<phone> </phone>
</contact>
</resultslist>
</results>
</logicresponse>



I want to produce html from the xml but do not want any contact elements that contain no data.

I have tried the following:

    <xsl:for-each select="/logicresponse/results/resultslist/contact">

    <xsl:if test="name != ' '">

        <tr>
         <td><a href="{$l}EditAccount&amp;id={position()}" class="calltoday"><xsl:value-of select="company" /></a></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
         <td><xsl:value-of select="name" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
         <td><xsl:value-of select="phone" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
         <td><xsl:value-of select="city" /></td>
        </tr>
    
    </xsl:if>

     </xsl:for-each>

The result is the outputed html table has a bunch of blank rows. What am I missing here?

Thanks
Ron

nevermind I was working in the wrong place. Sometimes I stare at this stuff to long and go blind.

Perhaps you are using Microsoft's XSLT processor, which contrary to the XSLT specification removes white-space-only text nodes: this means that your <name> </name> becomes <name></name>.

Try testing xsl:if test="normalize-space(name)".

Also, if the entire body of a for-each consists of an xsl:if, then you can put the condition into the select expression as a predicate:

xsl:for-each select="/a/b/c/d[normalize-space(name)]">



Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference