Apologies for the mangled indentation my mail client imposed. :)

On 6/12/15, 3:20 PM, "Ryan Graham ryan.graham@xxxxxxxxxx"
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>You could also do an identity transform, omitting number elements with an
>empty template match:
>
><xsl:template match="/">
>    <xsl:apply-templates/>
>	</xsl:template>
>
>
>	<xsl:template match="@*|*">
>    <xsl:copy>
>        <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
>        <xsl:apply-templates/>
>    </xsl:copy>
>	</xsl:template>
>
>
><xsl:template match="number"/>
>
>
>Thanks,
>Ryan
>
>On 6/12/15, 1:50 PM, "Rick Quatro rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
><xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>I think I figured it out:
>>
>><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>><xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>>    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>>    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
>>    version="2.0">
>>
>>    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
>>
>>    <xsl:template match="/root">
>>        <root>
>>            <xsl:for-each select="span">
>>                <span><xsl:copy-of
>>select="*[not(self::number)]|text()"/></span>
>>            </xsl:for-each>
>>        </root>
>>    </xsl:template>
>>
>></xsl:stylesheet>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Rick Quatro rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>[mailto:xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 4:45 PM
>>To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject:  Get children and text, excluding a child
>>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Here is my input xml:
>>
>><?xml version="1.0"?>
>><root>
>>  <span><number>9.3</number> <code>protected</code> members</span>
>>  <span><number>9.4</number> miscellaneous members.</span> </root>
>>
>>Here is the desired output:
>>
>><?xml version="1.0"?>
>><root>
>>  <span> <code>protected</code> members</span>
>>  <span> miscellaneous members.</span>
>></root>
>>
>>I want to output all of the elements and text of the original <span>
>>element, but without the <number> element. I am using this for my xsl:
>>
>><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>><xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>>    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>>    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
>>    version="2.0">
>>
>>    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
>>
>>    <xsl:template match="/root">
>>        <root>
>>            <xsl:for-each select="span">
>>                <xsl:copy-of select="descendant::*[not(self::number)]"/>
>>            </xsl:for-each>
>>        </root>
>>    </xsl:template>
>>
>></xsl:stylesheet>
>>
>>This is my current (incorrect) output:
>>
>><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>><root>
>>   <code>protected</code>
>></root>
>>
>>Any help or pointers would be appreciated. Thanks.
>>
>>Rick Quatro
>>Carmen Publishing Inc.
>>585-366-4017
>>rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx