xslt-2.0

I have follwing set of files: SourceFile.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <Employees> <Employee id="1"> <firstname relationship="headnote">Atif</firstname> <lastname relationship="lname">Bashir</lastname> <age relationship="age">32</age> </Employee> </Employees> ParamerterSettings.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Settings> <Employee id="1"> <sourceFile>Lookup1.xml</sourceFile> <sourceXpathfield>Employees/Employee[@id</sourceXpathfield> <lookupXpathfield>Employees/Employee[@id='1']</lookupXpathfield> <elementstoinsert>xyz</elementstoinsert> </Employee> </Settings> Lookup

How can I check if a value is null or empty with XSL ? For example, if categoryName is empty? I'm using a when choosing construct. For example: <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="categoryName !=null"> <xsl:value-of select="categoryName " /> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:value-of select="other" /> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> steamer25 test="categoryName != ''" Edit : This covers the most likely interpretation, in my opinion, of "[not] null or empty" as inferred from the question, including it's pseudo-code and my own early experience with XSLT. I.e., "What is the equivalent of the following

I am just learning XML and how to use XSL files. In an XSL file I found the following term: xsl:template match="/" What does this stand for? And what could I use instead of the / ? Could I write table or any other HTML tag instead of / ? Dimitre Novatchev The value of the match attribute of the <xsl:template> instruction must be a match pattern . Match patterns form a subset of the set of all possible XPath expressions . The first, natural, limitation is that a match pattern must select a set of nodes. There are also other limitations. In particular, reverse axes are not allowed in the

I want to split an address on semicolons ( ; ) into rows separated by <br /> : e.g. if address = 123 Elm Street , I want to output 123 Elm Street , but if address = 123 Elm Street;PO Box 222 , I want to output 123 Elm Street<br />PO Box 222 and if address = 123 Elm Street;PO Box 222;c/o James Jones , I want to output 123 Elm Street<br />PO Box 222<br />c/o James Jones Is there a way to do this? (probably easy but I'm not that familiar with XSLT) The plain XSL selector is <xsl:value-of select="address"/> and I would like to modify this XSLT fragment to split on semicolon. update : Apparently

I have a lot of XML files which have something of the form: <Element fruit="apple" animal="cat" /> Which I want to be removed from the file. Using an XSLT stylesheet and the Linux command-line utility xsltproc, how could I do this? By this point in the script I already have the list of files containing the element I wish to remove, so the single file can be used as a parameter. EDIT: the question was originally lacking in intention. What I am trying to achieve is to remove the entire element "Element" where (fruit=="apple" && animal=="cat"). In the same document there are many elements named