XQuery pattern matching can handle this, and indeed has a dedicated following.
For myself, schooled in both XSLT and XQuery, I really think XSLT identity
transformation is much easier to deploybfewer lines of code. I look forward
to debate on this... I havenbt been happy with how much more work Ibve had
to do to get pattern matching working. (And probably I havenbt been doing it
rightbbut I just returned to XSLT as a better tool for such tasks.)

Cheers,
Elisa



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> On Oct 17, 2019, at 11:55 AM, Costello, Roger L. costello@xxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> It's been a long time since I've looked at XQuery.
>
> I need to identify certain elements in XHTML documents and then either
remove the elements or modify their values. Can XQuery do this? Are there free
XQuery tools?
>
> XHTML --> XQuery --> XHTML' (a modified version of the input XHTML
document)
>
> /Roger