Hi Jan,
I want to copy only the elements with content
Whenever you want to copy-with-amendments, your best starting point is
the identity template, which performs a deep copy by recursing down
the tree:
<xsl:template match="node() | @*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
Then you can add templates that match the things that you want to
remove from the tree and do nothing with them. In your case, a
template that matches the empty elements:
<xsl:template match="*[not(node())]" />
Note that "empty" means different things to different people. The
above will filter out elements that are truly empty, but won't filter
out elements that contain only comments, processing-instructions or
whitespace-only text. It also won't filter out elements that only
contain other elements that are empty. So you might want:
<xsl:template match="*[not(normalize-space())]" />
instead, which will filter out all elements that don't contain any
textual content.
Cheers,
Jeni
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