You have to reimplement it using <xsl:choose> tag: <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test=”$CreatedDate > $IDAppendedDate”> <h2> mooooooooooooo </h2> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <h2> dooooooooooooo </h2> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose>
Try: //category[@name=”Sport” and ./author/text()=’James Small’]
<xsl:if test=”xpath-expression”>…</xsl:if> so for example <xsl:if test=”/html/body”>body node exists</xsl:if> <xsl:if test=”not(/html/body)”>body node missing</xsl:if>
For instances where running a local webserver is not an option, you can allow Chrome access to file:// files via a browser switch. After some digging, I found this discussion, which mentions a browser switch in opening post. Run your Chrome instance with: chrome.exe –allow-file-access-from-files This may be acceptable for development environments, but little else. … Read more
The following XSL code will produce a newline (line feed) character: <xsl:text>
</xsl:text> For a carriage return, use: <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
Use the entity code   instead. is a HTML “character entity reference”. There is no named entity for non-breaking space in XML, so you use the code  . Wikipedia includes a list of XML and HTML entities, and you can see that there are only 5 “predefined entities” in XML, but HTML has over … Read more
Xerces-based tools will emit the following error The processing instruction target matching “[xX][mM][lL]” is not allowed. when an XML declaration is encountered anywhere other than at the top of an XML file. This is a valid diagnostic message; other XML parsers should issue a similar error message in this situation. To correct the problem, check … Read more
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 Java?”: // Equivalent Java, NOT XSLT !(categoryName == null || categoryName.equals(“”)) For more details … Read more
XSLT equivalents for JSON – a list of candidates (tools and specs) Tools 1. XSLT You can use XSLT for JSON with the aim of fn:json-to-xml. This section describes facilities allowing JSON data to be processed using XSLT. 2. jq jq is like sed for JSON data – you can use it to slice and … Read more