How to check for the presence of an attribute

dsekar_nat · July 27th, 2006, 12:33 AM

Hi All,

Is there is a way to check the presence of an attribute or not in a tag using XSLT.

regards,
dsekar_nat

mhkay · July 27th, 2006, 03:36 AM

Tags don't exist in XSLT - you mean "element node".

If the element node in question is the context node, use

<xsl:if test="@a">

to test whether it has an attribute named a.

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

dsekar_nat · July 27th, 2006, 05:04 AM

Thank you Kay