Hi kasper you could do something like

<xsl:for-eachselect="umbraco.library:GetXmlDocumentByUrl($productFeedUrl, 3600)//Product [Country = umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('sortCountry')]">
  <!-- Something funny happens -->
  <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="sortCountry != ''">
                      
      </xsl:when>
  <xsl:otherwise>
    <!-- Something Else will happpen -->
    
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>

Hm... that dosen't make much sense to me. You suggest I loop thrugh the products WITH the parameter and inside the loop tells what to do WITHOUT the parameter...?

Is there a way to add a parameter to the for-each if sortCountry contains something?

Sorry what i wanted to suggest you was to choose make something like

<xsl:choose>
      <xsl:whentest="sortCountry != ''">
               <!-- somthing funny happens -->   
    <!-- Here you could also call a template where you will have your loop -->
      </xsl:when>
  <xsl:otherwise>
    <!-- Something Less Funny happpens -->
<!-- another template where you will have another loop -->
    
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

Hi Kasper,

The best way to test stuff like this is with the normalize-space() function:

<!-- Grab the query param -->
<xsl:variable name="sortCountry" select="umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('sortCountry')" />

<!-- Fetch the products -->
<xsl:variable name="products" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlDocumentByUrl($productFeedUrl, 3600)//Product" />

<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="normalize-space($sortCountry) and not($sortCountry = 'all')">
            <xsl:apply-templates select="$products[Country = $sortCountry]" />
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="$products" />
        </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

<!-- Template for a Product -->
<xsl:template match="Product">
    <!-- Do something -->
</xsl:template>

Also, take note of how to reduce duplication by using variables for intermediate steps...

/Chriztian

Hi Chriztian

Good point with the variables.

Just to be sure of what normalize-space() does... if the variable contains let say: " this     little test text  ", will it then remove the spaces completely ("thislittletesttext") or just the spaces that isn't needed ("this little test text")?

Hi Kasper,

normalize-space() removes leading and trailing whitespace, and converts runs of whitespace into a single space - imagine this:

<bodyText>    Here I am
so for       the   demoing issue...

we can say.


</bodyText>

Then normalize-space(bodyText) would give you:

"Here I am so for the demoing issue... we can say."

Which is excellent for use in e.g. HTML attributes.

If the string starts as only whitespace, normalize-space() will return an empty string - and when you perform a test="" in XSLT the result will be sent through the boolean() function - and boolean(EMPTY STRING HERE) will return false(), so I've found it to be the best way to test if an element (or a variable) actually contains something.

(I know that was a way longer answer than necessary - hope it helps, though :-)

/Chriztian

It stands very clear for me now ;-)

Thanks for you both for your responses. Have a nice day

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