Hello Martin,

your solution does not cover nested (!) empty elements. Lets think of the following XML chunk:

  <xsl:output indent="yes"/>
...
<aaa>
   <bbb></bbb>
   <ccc/>
</aaa>

Your script will result in:

<aaa>


</aaa>

...removing only "inner" empty elements. How can I recursively delete "upper" empty elements as well (even if the become empty during the processing)?

By the way: Your template replace the empty elements by (two) blank lines. How can I tell the XSLT proc to 
remove the blank lines as well?

Ben

On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:41:52 +0200, Martin Honnen wrote:

>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>
>-- 
>	Martin Honnen
>	http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/