Except that you also appear to define an element as being empty if all its
children are empty, unless it is a myContent element. But David has given
you the principle: once you sort out what the rules are, writing them in
XSLT isn't difficult.

You can match an element that is empty in the sense above with

match="*[not(.//text())]"

provided you have used

<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

to remove the whitespace text nodes.

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 02 September 2004 16:52
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Empty nodes AND attributes stripping - I'm so lost
> 
> 
> just copy the identity transform from the xslt spec:
> 
> 
> <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
> <xsl:copy>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
> </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> then add a template to zap empty attributes:
> 
> <xsl:template match="@*[.='']"/>
> 
> and a template to zap empty elements
> 
> 
> <xsl:template match="*[not(node())]"/>
> 
> David
> 
> 
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