Re: [xsl] How to strip off all empty elements from a XML doc?

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

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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