Thanks for the suggestions which work fine.
There seems to have been a change in behaviour since version 1.5.1,
but I could not find it in the release notes. Can anyone confirm this?
On 14/06/2009, Nathan Bubna <nbu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That should be:
>
> #if( "$!items.getAttributeValue('required')" != "" )
>
> Or just $!items.getAttributeValue('required') if you don't mind
> showing empty strings.
>
> Or if you really want to clean up the look:
>
> public class AltTool {
> public Object empty(Object val, Object alt) {
> return (val == null || val.toString().length() == 0) ? alt : val;
> }
> }
> context.put("alt", new AltTool());
>
> $alt.empty($item.getAttributeValue('required'), 'No')
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Jude
> Robinson<dotcode+veloc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Is there a better way to handle optional attributes?
> >
> > "!$items.getAttributeValue('required')" != ""
> >
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