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Subject: Removing if no data - iterating through every child (sorry the codes a bit long)
From: "Kevinjohn Gallagher" <web_design_guru@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 15:21:14 +0100

Initially, sorry for the code seeming long. But it's a bit of a follow up to yesterdays questions (which I solved thanks to y'alls help).

Ok, so I have an XML file, where I can have any number of nodes, which can have any number of Children (and they can have children and so on).

Basically, I want to strip a node if it or it's children has no data, or has no attributes with data anywhere in it's descendants.

I sort of get the logic, but fail miserably to even consider how to fix it so that the last example works (Checkbox 6) - ie. Stripping a tree half way down.

ANY help would be great.

Thanks ALot

Bryan.

P.S. the number of children in the example is not overkill, there will usually be at least 4 - sorry.

ORIGINAL :

		<topNode>
			<Checkbox1>
				<really>
					<long>
						<really>
							<really>
								<long Attribute="0"/>
							</really>
						</really>
					</long>
				</really>
			</Checkbox1>
			<Checkbox2>
				<really>
					<long>
						<really>
							<really>
								<long> data </long>
							</really>
						</really>
					</long>
				</really>
			</Checkbox2>
			<Checkbox3>
				<really>
					<long>
						<really>
							<really>
								<long />
							</really>
						</really>
					</long>
				</really>
			</Checkbox3>
			<Checkbox4>
				<really>
					<long>
						<really>
							<really>
								<long Attribute=""/>
							</really>
						</really>
					</long>
				</really>
			</Checkbox4>
			<Checkbox5>
				<really>
					<long>
						<really>
							<really>
								<long Attribute="0" attribute=""> data </long>
							</really>
						</really>
					</long>
				</really>
			</Checkbox5>
			<Checkbox6>
				<really>
					<long Attribute="data">
						<really>
							<really>
								<long/>
							</really>
						</really>
					</long>
				</really>
			</Checkbox6>
		</topNode>

Output :

		<topNode>
			<Checkbox1>
				<really>
					<long>
						<really>
							<really>
								<long Attribute="0"/>
							</really>
						</really>
					</long>
				</really>
			</Checkbox1>
			<Checkbox2>
				<really>
					<long>
						<really>
							<really>
								<long> data </long>
							</really>
						</really>
					</long>
				</really>
			</Checkbox2>
			<Checkbox5>
				<really>
					<long>
						<really>
							<really>
								<long Attribute="0"> data </long>
							</really>
						</really>
					</long>
				</really>
			</Checkbox5>
			<Checkbox6>
				<really>
					<long Attribute="data" />
				</really>
			</Checkbox6>
		</topNode>

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Removing if no data - iterating through every child (sorry the codes a bit long) Kevinjohn Gallagher - 3 Sep 2004 14:22:02 -0000 <= Mukul Gandhi - 3 Sep 2004 17:49:20 -0000 <Possible follow-ups> Kevinjohn Gallagher - 6 Sep 2004 13:44:56 -0000

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