Re: remove extra chars from the entire xml document

Arbee Shadkam wrote:
> thanks Roland for the reply,  Bu my xml document is gigantic, so i can not 
> have a translate function for each tag.  I was wondering if there would be a 
> better way like a template to apply to the entire document?

Do an identity transformation (recurse through document, copying every node),
and for text nodes, translate before copying. I assume by 'fields' you mean
text node children of element nodes. You could easily adapt it to do 
attribute nodes as well.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="no"/>

  <xsl:variable name="deleteThese">&amp;'*</xsl:variable>

  <xsl:template match="/|*">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="@*|comment()|processing-instruction()">
    <xsl:copy/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="text()">
    <xsl:value-of select="translate(.,$deleteThese,'')"/>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

   - Mike
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