Hi,
At 07:11 PM 7/4/2007, was written:
On Wed, Jul 04 2007 19:10:22 +0100, Shaun(_dot_)McDonald(_at_)jetblue(_dot_)com
wrote:
> I came up with something that appears to work, only I'm not sure if
> there is a caveat to doing it this way.
>
> Since I'm transforming almost 100 files, I want to make sure nothing
> bites me in the rear.
>
> Using XSLT 2.0, Saxon 8.8
>
> <xsl:template match="*">
> <xsl:copy>
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="not(@change)">
> <xsl:copy-of select="@* "/>
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise/>
> </xsl:choose>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> I'm still spot-checking the files, but so far it seems to have removed
> the @change attribute only, which is my desired output.
That would appear to be because @change is the only attribute on that
particular element.
Your template copies all attributes if @change is not present, and
copies no attributes if it is present.
(If you have just one test, you can use xsl:if instead of xsl:choose,
and when you do use xsl:choose, the xsl:otherwise is optional.)
Try just:
<xsl:copy-of select="@*[not(self::change)]"/>
I'm afraid this isn't going to work, on account of attribute elements
not appearing on the self:: axis. (A small but significant wrinkle.)
You might have to work around just a bit more:
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@*">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@change"/>
When you apply templates to the attributes, only the @change
attributes will match the empty template, and will hence be dropped.
Other attributes will match the "next best" template matching
attributes, which copies them.
Cheers,
Wendell
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