Hello Martin,
your solution does not cover nested (!) empty elements. Lets think of the
following XML chunk:
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>
...
<aaa>
<bbb></bbb>
<ccc/>
</aaa>
Your script will result in:
<aaa>
</aaa>
...removing only "inner" empty elements. How can I recursively delete "upper"
empty elements as well (even if the become empty during the processing)?
By the way: Your template replace the empty elements by (two) blank lines. How
can I tell the XSLT proc to
remove the blank lines as well?
Ben
On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:41:52 +0200, Martin Honnen wrote:
Ben Stover wrote:
Just another question:
Assume a XML doc contains (sub)elements with no content like
<myelem22></myelem22>
or
<myelem22/>
How can I strip off/delete recursively ALL these empty elements
from the XML element tree (but keep all others)?
Two template do that:
<xsl:template match="*[not(node())]"/>
<xsl:template match="@* | node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
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Martin Honnen
http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/
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