Deleting Node with Empty Element

[xslnew1]

Hi @all,

may somebody can help me out.
I would like to remove a node which has empty element, something like this:

<start>
<node 1>
<NonEmpty> Some Text </NonEmpty>
<node 2>
<Empty>
</Empty>
</node 2>
</node 1>
</start>

into :
<start>
<node 1>
<NonEmpty> Some Text </NonEmpty>
</node 1>
</start>

many thanks in advance,

cheers

 

[tsuji]

[0] Why can't you open it with notepad or any text file editor and highlight-delete? This is obviously not what you've meant for asking. So why can't you be more professionally precise?
[0.1] I can only guess you want to do it with xsl. Why I guess so, I haven't a clue.

[1] >I would like to remove a node which has empty element, something like this:[...]
[1.1] This is again not very precise. At the face of it, "node 1" contains empty element(s) as well as its descendant...
[1.2] You haven't consider the effect of attributes. That I will leave it to your future alertness.
[1.3] Figuratively "node 1", "node 2" etc are not good illustration. They are _not_ valid tag name. (Do you know why?)

[2] To answer your question without regard to [1.2], you can add a template with sufficiently high priority (9 below is arbitrary) to any of your existing xsl document.
[tt] [blue]<xsl:template match="node()[normalize-space(.)='']" priority="9" />[/blue][/tt]

 

[xslnew1]

Hi,

sorry for that !

I bit more precise example ;-)
<part>
<test>
Some Text
</test>
<section>
Again some text
</section>
<Empty Tag>
</Empty Tag>
</part>

This my xsl file:


<xsl:template
match="node()[ descendant-or-self::*[@* != ''] or descendant-or-self::*[string-length(normalize-space(.)) &gt; 0]]">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text()">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@*">
<xsl:attribute name="{name()}"><xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
It works fine and deletes the empty tags, however I would also like to remove Element section aswell.

thx in advance

 

[xslnew1]

Hi again,

I am sorry but I whish to delete the whole node part, if there is an empty tag within that node:

<part>
<section>
some text
</section>
<Empty Tag>
</Empty Tag>
</part>
rgds

 

[tsuji]

>I whish to delete the whole node part, if there is an empty tag within that node:[...]
This is again ambiguous! Make up your mind, and try and add this template then.
[tt] <xsl:template match="node()/node()[normalize-space()='']" priority="9" />[/tt]
ps: If you still haven't learned, [tt]<Empty Tag>[/tt] is again a wrong name.