On May 14, 2008, at 5:50 AM, jlr wrote:
> I have an XML document that will display the elements as shown below.
> Basically, the elements are a subset of the <row> tag. The elements
> will always have the tag names of column1, column2, column3, and
> column4.
> As shown in the example below, some of the tag names column1, etc. may
> have elements, and some of the tag names for column1, etc. may be
> empty
> elements. I have only given one listing of empty elements, but this
> could
> be up to
> 50 empty elements. When creating the PDF document in xslt, is there
> a way
> of removing
> the empty elements so that they won't display?
> I have the xslt code after the xml detail.
Okay, first of all you should be doing this, e.g.:
<xsl:apply-templates select="column1"/>
instead of
<xsl:value-of select="column1"/>
Once you have fixed that, then just add this template:
<xsl:template match="row/*[not (normalize-space (.))]"/> <!-- kill
empty columns -->
HTH,
—ml—
