Hi Bob,

Thanks. I just filed this as an issue in github. 

I’ll take a look and see if I can find a fix.

Dick
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> On Aug 14, 2020, at 00:18, Bob Stayton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'm inclined to think that is a bug, because there are perhaps legitimate 
> reasons for the text attribute of a particular gentext template to be empty 
> in some languages.
> Bob Stayton
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> On 8/11/2020 6:06 PM, Richard Hamilton wrote:
>> The template gentext.template.exists in the 1.0 stylesheets has what may be 
>> a bug.
>> 
>> This template says that it returns 1 if a gentext template exists for a 
>> particular context and name and 0 if the template doesn’t exist.
>> 
>> However, if a gentext template does exist, but it has a text value that is 
>> empty (e.g., <l:template name=“somename” text=“”/>), gentext.template.exists 
>> returns 0, not 1.
>> 
>> That is, it doesn’t distinguish between a template with a null value for the 
>> text and a non-existent template.
>> 
>> My question is whether this is a bug or a feature? I’m inclined to think 
>> it’s a bug, but I’m not sure.
>> 
>> If it’s a bug, I’m glad to file a report.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Dick Hamilton
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