How to check the not equal in system xml

Goals/Goal[@ID = '" & sID & "'][@status='" & (IIf((sType = xyz), abc, pqr)) & "'][description != '']

Is that a question or a statement?

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

The "not equals" operator in XPath is "!=", but it's usually better to write [not(A=B)] because of the behaviour when A or B is absent.

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

thanks ,it helped me lot