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Surender Thakran
Surender Thakran

Reputation: 4054

XSLT: when test condition for a child node with a certain name

How can I write a test condition in XSLT which says "if any of the child nodes of the current node's child has local-name() = 'abc'"?

For example if the current node has a node named test inside it and test may contain a node named abc

I tried writing test="local-name(test/child::*) = 'abc'" but it obviously didn't work.

Thnx in advance!!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8416

Answers (1)

Ian Roberts
Ian Roberts

Reputation: 122364

local-name(test/*) will check the name of only the first child element of the (first) test, if you want to check them all then you need to use a predicate:

<xsl:when test="test/*[local-name() = 'abc']">

but the simpler

<xsl:when test="test/abc">

may be enough if you don't need to cater for the possibility of unknown namespaces.

Upvotes: 5

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