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RE: Empty nodes AND attributes stripping - I'm so lost

Subject: RE: Empty nodes AND attributes stripping - I'm so lost - SOLUTION
From: "Kevinjohn Gallagher" <web_design_guru@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 18:25:34 +0100
xsl empty
Firstly, thanks for all the help.

I'm including my solution here so others might benefit.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" />
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>


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

	<xsl:template match="@*[.='']"/>
	<xsl:template match="//parent/myContent/*[.='' and not(attribute::*)]"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>


Cheers


Bryan


From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE:  Empty nodes AND attributes stripping - I'm so lost
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 17:21:43 +0100

Except that you also appear to define an element as being empty if all its
children are empty, unless it is a myContent element. But David has given
you the principle: once you sort out what the rules are, writing them in
XSLT isn't difficult.

You can match an element that is empty in the sense above with

match="*[not(.//text())]"

provided you have used

<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

to remove the whitespace text nodes.

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 September 2004 16:52
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Empty nodes AND attributes stripping - I'm so lost
>
>
> just copy the identity transform from the xslt spec:
>
>
> <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
> <xsl:copy>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
> </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> then add a template to zap empty attributes:
>
> <xsl:template match="@*[.='']"/>
>
> and a template to zap empty elements
>
>
> <xsl:template match="*[not(node())]"/>
>
> David
>
>
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