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Dan Paul

Subject: Strip Empty Elements and Attributes but leave Elements with populated attributes
Author: Dan Paul
Date: 03 Mar 2007 11:41 AM

I'm trying to strip empty elements and empty attributes from a document but leave in elements that are empty but have attributes that are populated. So far I've got the following code which removes all elements even if they have attributes populated. How do I add a conditions so something like <employee id="60"/> does not get stripped?

Thanks,
Dan

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@*[.='']"/>
<xsl:template match="*[not(node())]"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

(Deleted User)

Subject: Strip Empty Elements and Attributes but leave Elements with populated attributes
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 05 Mar 2007 12:05 PM

Hi Dan,
you can try changing the template to be

<xsl:template match="*[not(node()) and not(@*[.!=''])]"/>

so that elements that don't have text are stripped only if they don't have a non-empty attribute.

Hope this helps,
Alberto

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