At 2008-12-04 10:15 +0000, Vasu Chakkera wrote:
> <xsl:template match="node()|@*">
> <xsl:copy>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
> </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="*[not(descendant::text())]"/>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
That was not complete ..
The below is what i meant..
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*[not(descendant::text())]"/>
Be aware, Vasu, that her input data was indented, and you and I have
proposed XSLT 1.0 results, and in that data model it is most likely
(though not with Microsoft) that the white-space-only text nodes will
all be present in the data model, thus your proposal will only get
rid of empty leaf elements. Any other element will have indentation
white-space-only text nodes. In a data fragment where there is a
subtree of elements but no non-white-space-only text nodes, your
stylesheet will preserve that tree rather than ignore it as I think
the original poster wants.
And dealing with indentation is even more uncertain in XSLT 2.0
implementations where invocation options change the nature of the
source tree presented to the stylesheet.
In all of my stylesheets I've very rarely ever needed to explicitly
address text nodes, or the testing of element node values, without
some qualification due to the uncertainty of indentation and of mixed content.
I hope this is considered helpful.
. . . . . . . . . . . Ken
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