The general idea would be something like this...

<xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="count(./node) > 0">
        ...show the images...
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
        <p>There are no images at this time</p>
    </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

If you need more details of how to implement this for your particular situation just let us know how you've set up your gallery.

cheers,
doug.

well it looks like this (inlcuding your suggestion. But it is returning as an empty gallery even for the the galleries that have images (child nodes). Where am i going wrong???? 

<xsl:choose>

    <xsl:when test="count(./node) > 0">

<div class="GalleryWrapperInline">

        <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/node">

              <a class="example7 cboxElement" href="/gallery-lightbox?ID={data[@alias='LargePhoto']}&amp;keywords={data[@alias='GalleryKeywords']}&amp;Video={data[@alias='Video']}&amp;Title={@nodeName}">

                <img class="GalleryImgInline" src="{data[@alias='DisplayImage']}" alt="{@nodeName}" />

              </a>     

        </xsl:for-each>

</div>

  <div id="paradeGalleryBottom">&nbsp;</div>

    </xsl:when>

    <xsl:otherwise>

        <p>There are no images at this time</p>

    </xsl:otherwise>

</xsl:choose>

Try changing

<xsl:when test="count(./node) > 0">

to

<xsl:when test="count($currentPage/node) > 0">

I think the '.' assumes you are inside a for loop, which it doesn't look like you are yet

GOOD WORK FELLAS!!!

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