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I'm rather new to XML and apologies if it's not up to scratch.

The following is my code, which just doesn't seem to work. And I think I know why. I am trying to have it set so that if there is a shipID then the shipping address should show, on the table/div, but if there is a contact number instead this should show. I think it may be something to do with the 'shipID' as it is stated as 'less than' but I have since made the ShipID text and NOT a number. Is there a way to basically say "If there is a shipID then show this" instead of it having to be 'if there is a ship number less than"?

Cheers.

    <tr style= "color:white; background:yellow;">
            <th> header 1</th>
            <th> header 2</th>
            <th> header 3</th>
      </tr>
        <xsl:for-each select="shipping">
          <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="shipID &lt; '2'">
              <tr style="color:black;">
                <td>
                  <xsl:value-of select="header 1"/>
                </td>
                <td>
                  <xsl:value-of select="header 2"/>
                </td>
                <td>
                  <xsl:value-of select="header 3"/>
                </td>
                                  </tr>
            </xsl:when>

             <tr style= "color:white; background:yellow;">
            <th> contact 1</th>
            <th> contact 2</th>
            <th> contact 3</th>
      </tr> <xsl:otherwise>
      <xsl:for-each select="contacts">
        <tr style="color:black;">
          <td>
            <xsl:value-of select="contact1"/>
          </td>
          <td>
            <xsl:value-of select="Contact2"/>
          </td>
          <td>
            <xsl:value-of select="Contact3"/>
          </td>
        </tr>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>