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Subject: Re: Remove element that all its descendants have no text nodes
From: Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:28:03 +0100

Israel Viente wrote:

I didn't understand why we need the second rule too.
<xsl:template match="span[not(*) and not(normalize-space(.))]">
</xsl:template>
If you have time to explain a bit how this combination works I'll be very happy.

In the sample 1 you want to remove the empty 'span' element but keep the 'p' and its 'sup' child. The template above ensures that the empty 'span' is removed.

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