Dealing with empty XML in XSLT

Question

Im using XSLT to return some values, output as XHTML. However I usually structre my XSL like this:

<div id="something">
  call template=Something
</div>

The trouble is when the XML returned is empty it just outputs:

<div id="something">
Empty set.

And as you can imagine this screws up my page.

Is there any function i can use to detect if there is any data there or not? Or can anyone think of a better way of stopping this from happening.

Answer 1

I think you may be using

<xsl:output method="html" />

try

<xsl:output method="xml" />

instead.

Answer 2

It's just a dirty hack, but I had the same problem and I was in a hurry, so I ended using

<div id="something">
    <span>call template=Something</span>
</div>