Re: How to strip off all empty elements from a XML doc

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Subject: Re: How to strip off all empty elements from a XML doc?
From: Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:41:52 +0200

Ben Stover wrote:

Just another question:

Assume a XML doc contains (sub)elements with no content like
<myelem22></myelem22>
or
<myelem22/>
How can I strip off/delete recursively ALL these empty elements from the XML element tree (but keep all others)?

Two template do that:

<xsl:template match="*[not(node())]"/>

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

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	Martin Honnen
	http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/

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How to strip off all empty elements from a XML doc? Ben Stover - 7 Oct 2009 13:39:34 -0000 G. Ken Holman - 7 Oct 2009 13:42:12 -0000 Martin Honnen - 7 Oct 2009 13:42:31 -0000 <= David Carlisle - 7 Oct 2009 14:00:13 -0000

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