Re: How to remove (in addition) empty attributes?

The problem with this is that only elements OR attributes are stripped but not both at the same time.

Assume the following XML source:

<ns11:elem1 myattr="">
   <ns22:subelem2 />
   <ns22:subelem3></ns22:subelem3>
</ns11:elem1>

Then applying the XSLT script below will result in

<ns11:elem1>
</ns11:elem1>

As you can see the ns11:elem1 persists.
It is handled only in the remove attribute template and does not match the other remove-empty-element template. 

So how can I iteratively/recursively re-apply the script/templates on the result again?


XSLT script:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"  version="1.0">
  
  <xsl:output indent="yes"/>

  <xsl:template match="@*[normalize-space(.)='']"/>

  <xsl:template match="*[not(node())]"/> 
  
  <xsl:template match="@* | node()">
     <xsl:copy>
       <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
     </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>
   
</xsl:stylesheet>

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 20:58:11 -0500, Syd Bauman wrote:

>How about matching the empty attributes and not generating any
>output?

>  <xsl:template match="@*[normalize-space(.)='']"/>


>> How can I delete empty attributes as well?