Subject: RE: [xsl] Copying most of an XML document From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:16:24 +0100 |
The classic design pattern for this a stylesheet that contains (a) an identity template <xsl:template match="*"> <xsl:copy><xsl:copy-of select="@*"/><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:copy> </xsl:template> (b) an extra template for the elements you want to remove or modify <xsl:template match="caterpillar"/> Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Trevor Nicholls [mailto:trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 23 August 2005 02:20 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [xsl] Copying most of an XML document > > Hello > > Given an original XML document that I need to process in > several different > ways I am finding the job much more difficult than it needs > to be, I think, > because the file contains a lot of "noise". I want to use XSL > to clean the > file up in a first pass so that it will be simpler to process > later on. > > Here is my magnolia tree - I need it copied exactly but I > want to remove > every caterpillar. Unfortunately it is infested with caterpillars > throughout. > > Basically I want to do something like copy every single node, > children and > attributes and all, but whenever I find (e.g.) an <a> node I > want to ignore > it. If I could somehow tell 'xsl:copy-of' what to ignore that > would be all I > needed (but I can't). If I knew the full structure of the file I could > create templates to match and replicate all the nodes I wanted to keep > without losing any of their attributes, but sadly this XML has been > generated by Framemaker (from unstructured original > documents) and there is > no document definition to work from. > > I'm hoping there is an XSL solution to this. > > Cheers > Trevor
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