Hi,

The below when condition failing always as iam required to search and validate existence of a value

XML:
<xsl: variable name="valid">
<Klm>
<abc>45</abc>
<abc>67</abc>
</klm>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="isThere>67</xsl:variable>
<xsl:when test ="count($isThere !=$valid/klm/abc) >0 >

...

</xsl:when>

the when condition is always failing since by default $valid/klm/abc is taking first value 45 always.Can somone let me know how to search the xml for a required value to pass that when condition

Thanks for your help

Firstly, I assume you're using an XSLT 2.0 processor - in 1.0, this would be an error.

The semantics of != can be surprising. Your condition $isThere !=$valid/klm/abc is true if there is a pair of values, one from the sequence $isThere and one from the sequence $valid/klm/abc, such that the two values in the pair are unequal.

You probably mean not($isThere = $valid/klm/abc), which is true if there is no pair of values that are equal.

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