XSLT Conditional creation of destination Node

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I'm trying to write an XSLT to convert an XML document from one schema
to
another.
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The destination XML schema has an optional State element. The element
can be
left out, but if it's present it must have a two character code. The
source XML has
a required element of type string that be left blank. My problem is,
if the source node is present but blank, I want to NOT create the
destination Date node. If the source node is populated
then I want the destination node create and populated.
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How do I do this?
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Currently, I seem to always get the destination node and if the source
was
blank, the destination is comming up blank and causing a schema
validation
error.
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In case you can't tell... I'm a complete NEWBIE to XSTL.
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I'm currently using Altova MapForce 2006 to do the development.
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Someone in another news group recommend the following:
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<xsl:template match="source-element-name[text()]">
<result-element-name>
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</result-element-name>
</xsl:template>
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<xsl:template match="source-element-name(not(text())]" />
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But being so new to both XSLT and Altova's MapForce, I have no idea how
I would include such code in my Mapforce mapping.
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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