I need a test which would evaluate to true in two cases:

• There is a string inside which contains any non white space characters
• There is any node (which can be possibly empty)

on a variable that is filled with apply-template call result.

I tried

test="normalize-space($var)"

but this doesn't cover the empty tag possibility. I also tried simply this:

test="$var"

but this evaluate to true even for white space only strings.

By the way "$var/*" produces an error "Expression ...something I don't remember... node-set" which is I think because of apply-template variable instantiation.

Is there any (which means even multi level decision) solution for this?

EDIT: I forgot to say that it's for XSLT 1.0 and preferably without any exslt extensions or similar.