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 In XSLT you copy the things you want to keep from the source document to the result document. If there's an element you don't want in the result, then don't copy it. "Delete" implies that you have to do something to get rid of an element: you don't need to do anything, in fact, you need to do nothing. To put this together with the solution just offered -- an identity template along with a template matching the unwanted element that "does nothing", remember that by default (by means of built-in templates, just mentioned in another thread) Elements are not copied, but their contents (descendants) are processed Text nodes are copied (or: their values are reported) So if your stylesheet is truly a "null stylesheet" (that is, has no templates at all) what you get back is the whole source tree, with all the elements gone (since element nodes were not copied though their children were processed) but the text there (since the values of text nodes were copied). Written out it looks a lot like <xsl:value-of select="/"/> -- the whole source with all the markup gone. What happens anyway, without your having to ask for it, is a frequent source of confusion for beginning XSLTers; but it's not hard to understand once you're clued into it. And in this case, "doing nothing" means including a template that does nothing. A zen koan: what is the sound of an empty template matching? Cheers, Wendell ___&&__&_&___&_&__&&&__&_&__&__&&____&&_&___&__&_&&_____&__&__&&_____&_&&_
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