functx:has-simple-content

Whether an element has simple content

Description

The functx:has-simple-content function returns true if the element has no child elements but does have some textual (character data) content, even if it is all whitespace.

Parameters

Description

element:element()

the XML element to test

Examples

XPath

Results

functx:has-simple-content($in-xml/a)

false

functx:has-simple-content($in-xml/b)

false

functx:has-simple-content($in-xml/c)

true

functx:has-simple-content($in-xml/d)

true

functx:has-simple-content($in-xml/e)

false

functx:has-simple-content($in-xml/f)

false

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