Re: Only copy nodes that have text at some point in th

Hi Matt,

Here's a very short and simple solution to your problem.
It copies only those nodes that are text or have descendants-text:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output indent="yes"/>
  <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
  <xsl:template match="node()[descendant-or-self::text()]|@*">
     <xsl:copy>
       <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
     </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

It transforms your source xml file to:

<Catalog>
   <Product NodeID="B" Action="A">
      <Child>
         <Grandchild>Steven</Grandchild>
      </Child>
   </Product>
   <Product NodeID="C" Action="A">
      <Child>
         <Grandchild>Paul</Grandchild>
      </Child>
   </Product>
</Catalog>

Hope this helped.

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.
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mjyoungblut at mmm dot com wrote:

Hi,
     I know I have seen this question posed before, but I can't seem to
find it in the FAQ or in the archives.  Sorry for the redundancy.

I only want to copy nodes that have a textual descendant.
<Catalog>
     <Product NodeID="A" Action="A">
          <Child>
               <Grandchild/>
          </Child>
     </Product>
     <Product NodeID="B" Action="A">
          <Child>
               <Grandchild>Steven</Grandchild>
          </Child>
     </Product>
     <Product NodeID="C" Action="A">
          <Child>
               <Grandchild>Paul</Grandchild>
               <Grandchild/>
          </Child>
     </Product>
     <Product NodeID="D" Action="A"/>

</Catalog>

I would expect the results to look like the following:
<Catalog>
     <Product NodeID="B" Action="A">
          <Child>
               <Grandchild>Steven</Grandchild>
          </Child>
     </Product>
     <Product NodeID="C" Action="A">
          <Child>
               <Grandchild>Paul</Grandchild>
          </Child>
     </Product>
</Catalog>

If somebody has a link or a solution to this problem, I would appreciate
it.
Thanks,
     Matt Youngblut





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