Ah, that got it. Wasn't thinking about the distinction. It did indeed help! Thanks!
-tfo On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 17:16, Gary L Peskin wrote: > Thomas -- > > You are not creating a boolean variable but a result tree fragment which is > never empty. > > Try: > > <xsl:variable name="boolean_test" select="false()"/> > > and see what happens. > > HTH, > Gary