true() function
File: Data.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <emailList> <head:header xmlns:head="http://www.domain.com/namespace/header"> <title>Email List</title> <maintainer>Joe</maintainer> </head:header> <person type="personal" id="p001"> <name>person1</name> <email>p@hotmail.com</email> </person> <person type="work" id="p002"> <name>person2</name> <email>p@hotmail.com</email> </person> <person type="personal" id="p003"> <name>person3</name> <email>p3@hotmail.com</email> </person> </emailList> File: Transform.xslt <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTf-8" ?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="text" indent="yes" /> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templates select="emailList"> <xsl:with-param name="bool" select="true()" /> </xsl:apply-templates> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="emailList"> <xsl:param name="bool" select="true()" /> <xsl:variable name="true" select="true()" /> <xsl:if test="$bool = $true"> <xsl:text>sendPage.jsp</xsl:text> </xsl:if> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Output: sendPage.jsp