Re: [xsl] remove certain elements but keep children

[Anton Triest <anton@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ben,

You could do an identity transform to copy all elements except 'output':

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
   <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" indent="yes"/>
   <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
   <!-- identity transform: copy all elements -->
   <xsl:template match="*">
       <xsl:copy>
           <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
           <xsl:apply-templates/>
       </xsl:copy>
   </xsl:template>
   <!-- override 'output' elements (copy its children) -->
   <xsl:template match="output">
       <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
   </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Cheers,
Anton


Ben Munat wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm writing an app that aggregates html into a single doc. The chunks 
> of html are put into the new document wrapped in "output" tags. These 
> output tags can be intermingled with html tags.
>
> I'm trying to come up with an xpath or xsl template(s) that will 
> remove the output tags, while leaving their child html and without 
> producing duplicate content.
>
> Here's an example doc:
>
> <output>
>     <div>
>         <output>
>             <h1>a header</h1>
>             <p>some stuff</p>
>             <output>
>                 <div>
>                     <p>foo bar</p>
>                 </div>
>             </output>
>             <p>more html</p>
>         </output>
>     </div>
>     <p>some html</p>
> </output>
>
> And I want it to be:
>
> <div>
>     <h1>a header</h1>
>     <p>some stuff</p>
>         <div>
>             <p>foo bar</p>
>         </div>
>         <p>more html</p>
> </div>
> <p>some html</p>
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> thanks,
>
> Ben