Hello, wonder if you could help me with a slight problem:

heres a snippet of my XML:


<selection DMLTYPE="U" TABLEID="3575680.10" IDFOSELECTION="3575680.10" IDFOMARKET="146372.10" IDFOPARTICIPANT="305876.10" NAME="Mclachlan, Fraser" FULLNAME="Mclachlan, Fraser" IDFOBOLIFESTATE="N" IDSELECTIONSTATE="N" SHORTNAME="MCLACHLAN" ALTERNATIVENAME="MCLACHLAN" ISGPOPTIONON="0" ISRESERVE="0" HADVALUE="A" INTERNALORDER="3575680.10" CURRENTPRICEUP="50" CURRENTPRICEDOWN="1" DECIMALPRICE="51.00" PRICEHISTORY="80/1,50/1" />

<selection DMLTYPE="U" TABLEID="3575682.10" IDFOSELECTION="3575682.10" IDFOMARKET="146372.10" IDFOPARTICIPANT="305243.10" NAME="Rundle, Adam" FULLNAME="Rundle, Adam" IDFOBOLIFESTATE="N" IDSELECTIONSTATE="N" SHORTNAME="RUNDLE, A" ALTERNATIVENAME="RUNDLE, A" ISGPOPTIONON="0" ISRESERVE="0" HADVALUE="A" INTERNALORDER="3575682.10" CURRENTPRICEUP="20" CURRENTPRICEDOWN="1" DECIMALPRICE="21.00" PRICEHISTORY="50/1,20/1" />

<selection DMLTYPE="U" TABLEID="3575683.10" IDFOSELECTION="3575683.10" IDFOMARKET="146372.10" IDFOPARTICIPANT="290566.10" NAME="Uhlenbeek, Gus" FULLNAME="Uhlenbeek, Gus" IDFOBOLIFESTATE="N" IDSELECTIONSTATE="N" SHORTNAME="UHLENBEEK" ALTERNATIVENAME="UHLENBEEK" ISGPOPTIONON="0" ISRESERVE="0" HADVALUE="A" INTERNALORDER="3575683.10" CURRENTPRICEUP="40" CURRENTPRICEDOWN="1" DECIMALPRICE="41.00" PRICEHISTORY="40/1" />

<selection DMLTYPE="U" TABLEID="3575761.10" IDFOSELECTION="3575761.10" IDFOMARKET="146372.10" IDFOPARTICIPANT="1243918.10" NAME="Coke, Giles" FULLNAME="Coke, Giles" IDFOBOLIFESTATE="N" IDSELECTIONSTATE="N" SHORTNAME="Coke, Gil" ALTERNATIVENAME="Coke, Gil" ISGPOPTIONON="0" ISRESERVE="0" INTERNALORDER="3575674.35" CURRENTPRICEUP="22" CURRENTPRICEDOWN="1" DECIMALPRICE="23.00" PRICEHISTORY="22/1" />


Now as can be seen, there is not HADVALUE attribute for the last selection above, this happens occasionly with the XML feed I am receiving.


a snippet of code from my .xsl is posted below. I am merely trying to find out if the player (this is a football first goalscorer screen for a betting shop) is home or away and if neither, assign the class as HOMENAME.

<td align="left">
<xsl:attribute name="class">
   <xsl:if test="not(@HADVALUE)">HOMENAME</xsl:if>
   <xsl:if test="@HADVALUE='H'">HOMENAME</xsl:if>
   <xsl:if test="@HADVALUE='D'">DRAWNAME</xsl:if>
   <xsl:if test="@HADVALUE='A'">AWAYNAME</xsl:if>
</xsl:attribute>

this doesn't work, no class is being assigned to the player coke,giles. anyone got a solution to this as I have searched the forums but can't seem to find any info on missing attributes, only missing nodes.

Thanks in advance.

Your code looks correct to me. Which usually means the bug is in the part that you haven't shown us... Try to produce a complete but cut-down example that demonstrates the problem.

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

You were right, I created a lite version and figured out my problem immediately.

I had a rogue if statement in there.

Cheers Michael.

on a related not, the reason I didn't see it is that I am using marrowsoft xselerator as my editor and the if statement was off the screen to the right.

whats everyone else use, I know your book suggests saxon but whats the pros and cons of peoples tools ?