RE: [xml-dev] Removing nodes but leaving the tree intact

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

The xsl-list at mulberrytech.com is the best place for getting XSLT coding help.

 

This one is a standard "modified identity transform". Define one template rule that copies nodes:

 

<xsl:template match="*">

  <xsl:copy>

    <xsl:apply-templates/>

  </xsl:copy>

</xsl:template>

 

and another that copies their children:

 

<xsl:template match="somecategory">

  <xsl:apply-templates/>

</xsl:template>

 

Michael Kay

http://www.saxonica.com/

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From: Job van Ommen [mailto:jobvanommen@gmail.com]
Sent: 20 November 2008 11:42
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: [xml-dev] Removing nodes but leaving the tree intact

Hello Everyone,

I have a automatically generated xml tree like this:

<root>
  <someobject/>
  <someotherobject/>
  <somecategory>
    <somename>
      <somecategory>
        <someothername>
          <someobject/>
          <someotherobject/>
        </someothername>
      </somecategory>
    <someobject/>
    <someotherobject/>
  </some name>
  </some category>
</root>

I generate a lot of these files, always containing nested <somecategory> elements.

Is there a clean way to use xsl to remove the <somecategory> elements and return the xml intact, just without the <somecategory> elements?

Kind regards.