SV: [xsl] Removing tags automatically efter xsl transformation!

[Klosa Uwe <Uwe.Klosa@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Alexander,

 I want 1

/Uwe

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> 
> Hello.
> 
> Klosa Uwe wrote:
> > I want to remove tags like <tag/> (without any child and 
> string-length 
> of
> > zero) from my output. I'm transforming xml-files to 
> different formats. 
> In
> > some I don't want to have "empty" tags.
> 
> Do you want
> 
>   (1) to remove all elements with empty content or
>   (2) to prevent their appearance in the output?
> 
> These are different wiches.
> For instance, what you want to do with the following input?
> 
>   <one>
>     <two>
>       <three/>
>     </two>
>   <one/>
> 
> If you want (1) then the output will be
> 
>   <one>
>     <two/>
>   <one/>
> 
> But if you want (2), I guess, the output will be empty.
> In the case of (1), here is a solution:
> 
>   <xsl:template match="*">
>     <xsl:if test="node()">
>       <xsl:copy>
>         <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
>         <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
>       </xsl:copy>
>     </xsl:if>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
> As for (2), I will start thinking
> only after you say you really want it. :-)
> 
> -- 
> Alexander E. Gutman
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