existance of a file

[chris markiewicz <cm...@commnav.com>]

hello.

i have a page that displays an image (among other things).  if the image is
removed from the filesystem, i would like to display an alternate image.
can xsl help me, or should i check for the existance of the file in the back
end (java)?

thanks
chris

RE: existance of a file

[Christian Aberger <xm...@Aberger.at>]

Hi !

This is definitly not a question that should be posted here, I suppose it is
a question for the xslt mailing list. Please ask there the next time.

I suppose you use xalan to transform some xml - document that contains the
path to the image to transform it to html, right ?

something like:

<image path="/usr/share/htdocs/images/sample.jpg"/>

then you need in the stylesheet a sequence like:
<xsl:if test="string-length(image/@path)=0">
	<img alt="blah blah blah..." src="/usr/share/htdocs/images/default.jpg"/>
</xsl:if>

wfR Christian Aberger

-----Original Message-----
From: chris markiewicz [mailto:cmarkiew@commnav.com]
Sent: Montag, 26. März 2001 15:40
To: xalan-dev@xml.apache.org
Subject: existance of a file


hello.

i have a page that displays an image (among other things).  if the image is
removed from the filesystem, i would like to display an alternate image.
can xsl help me, or should i check for the existance of the file in the back
end (java)?

thanks
chris