I am fairly new to xml and I'm having a weird problem with templates. For empty data nodes, instead of displaying a blank space where the data should be, I want to display a message like 'None Found' or 'No Data' on an html page. I have done both an xsl:choose statement and 2 xsl:if statements with no success. I already know this particular node is empty, I just want to show a message instead of a blank space. The Otherwise or False statements just don't seem to run at all. Please help!! What am I doing wrong here?
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE></TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt">
..
...
<div class="float-child" style="margin-bottom: 25px">
<xsl:apply-templates select="root/dobs"/>
</div>
..
.
</BODY>
</HTML>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="dobs">
<div><span style="font-weight:bold">DOB(s):</span>
<xsl:variable name="dobHasData" select="boolean(normalize-space(dob))" />
<xsl:value-of select="$dobHasData"/> <!-- displays as 'false' -->
<xsl:if test="$dobHasData = 'true'">
<xsl:value-of select="dob"/>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="$dobHasData = 'false'">
<span style="font-weight:normal"> <xsl:value-of select="$dobHasData"/> </span> <!-- this line will not display -->
</xsl:if>
</div>
</xsl:template>
As requested, here is an example of an XML file I'm trying to transform
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Root>
<Node1>
<Node1>name</Node1>
<Node1>phone</fields>
<Node1>address</fields>
<Node1>email</fields>
</Node1>
<dobs/> <--- This is the empty node I'm trying to manage
<id>22</id>
<Node4>
<firstName>Homer</firstName>
<lastName>Simpson</lastName>
<address>1122 Smithers Lane</address>
<city>Springfield</city>
<zip>88773</zip>
<state>MA</state>
</Node4>
</Root>
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