Question

how to test if my condition is this;

<xsl:if test="node = '1' or node='2'">
<input name="list_{@id}" value="{@id}" type="checkbox"/>
</xsl:if>

Is IF statement allowed OR condition? Please advice..

Answer 1

Is IF statement allowed OR condition?

No, but XPath has an or operator — do note that XPath is case-sensitive language.

The XPath expression in the provided code:

node = '1' or node='2'

is syntactically correct.

or is a standard XPath operator and can be used to combine two subexpressions.

[33] OperatorName ::= ‘and’ | ‘or’ | ‘mod’ | ‘div’

Here is a complete XSLT transformation example:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
 <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

 <xsl:template match="node()|@*">
  <xsl:copy>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
  </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="num[ . = 3 or . = 5]"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

When this transformation is applied on the following XML document:

<nums>
  <num>01</num>
  <num>02</num>
  <num>03</num>
  <num>04</num>
  <num>05</num>
  <num>06</num>
  <num>07</num>
  <num>08</num>
  <num>09</num>
  <num>10</num>
</nums>

the wanted, correct result is produced (all elements copied with the exception of <num>03</num> and <num>05</num>:

<nums>
   <num>01</num>
   <num>02</num>
   <num>04</num>
   <num>06</num>
   <num>07</num>
   <num>08</num>
   <num>09</num>
   <num>10</num>
</nums>