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functx:has-simple-content

Whether an element has simple content

Description

The functx:has-simple-content function returns true if the element has no child elements but does have some textual (character data) content, even if it is all whitespace.

Arguments and Return Type

Name	Type	Description
`$element`	`element()`	the XML element to test
return value	`xs:boolean`

XSLT Function Declaration

See XQuery definition.

<xsl:function name="functx:has-simple-content" as="xs:boolean"
              xmlns:functx="http://www.functx.com">
  <xsl:param name="element" as="element()"/>

  <xsl:sequence select="
   $element/text() and not($element/*)
 "/>

</xsl:function>

Examples

<xsl:variable name="in-xml" as="item()*">

<in-xml>
   <a></a>
   <b/>
   <c>   </c>
   <d>xml</d>
   <e><x>xml</x></e>
   <f>mixed <x>xml</x></f>
</in-xml>

</xsl:variable>

XPath Example	Results
functx:has-simple-content($in-xml/a)	false
functx:has-simple-content($in-xml/b)	false
functx:has-simple-content($in-xml/c)	true
functx:has-simple-content($in-xml/d)	true
functx:has-simple-content($in-xml/e)	false
functx:has-simple-content($in-xml/f)	false

History

Published On	Last Updated	Contributor(s)
2007-04-30	2007-04-30	Priscilla Walmsley, Datypic, pwalmsley@datypic.com, https://www.datypic.com

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