Re: [xsl] Null Values

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lawrence:

How about something like --

<xsl:template match="*">
  <xsl:if test="normalize-space(.) or node()[not(self::text())]">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="comment()|processing-instruction()">
  <!-- so that these nodes don't get stripped (delete if you don't want 
em) -->
  <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

?

(Strictly speaking, this does go node by node.)

Good luck,
Wendell

At 07:56 PM 3/29/01, you wrote:
> My requirement is to remove tag names when I convert from one xml to 
> another xml, if there is no data.
> e.g
> <F1>1234</F1>
> <F2>1234</F2>
> <F3></F3>
> <F4>1234</F4>
>
> to
>
> <F1>1234</F1>
> <F2>1234</F2>
> <F4>1234</F4>
>
> Is there any general method to do this, instead of checking node by node.

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