bbbbbbDimitre - this works great for removing the outer tag --

as it's any outer tag.

bbbbbbHow would I limit this to just <p> tags??

<xsl:template match="p[
    p and
    not(*[name()!='p']) and
    not(text()[normalize-space(.)!=''])">
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

That is, if it's a <p> containing only <p> elements and not others,
and it does not contain non-white-space text() nodes, then ignore the
container and process the contents.

bbbbbb<arbitrary-outer-tag>
bbbbbb<div>
bbbbbbbbbbbb<p>content<p>
bbbbbbbbbbbb<div>text</div
bbbbbbbbbbbb<b>more text</b>
bbbbbb</div>
bbbbbb<arbitrary-outer-tag>

bbbbbbWould remain unchanged?

bbbbbbThanks,
bbbbbbbbbbbbMatt V.
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*From:* Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx
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*Sent:* Friday, March 17, 2023 1:26 PM
*To:* xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Subject:* Re:  How to remove outer tag if present in XSLT
A simple XSLT 1.0 solution (using even Saxon 6.5.3 is OK :) ):

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform
<http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform>">
 B <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
 B <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

 B  <xsl:template match="node()|@*">
 B  B  <xsl:copy>
 B  B  B  <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
 B  B  </xsl:copy>
 B  </xsl:template>

 B  <xsl:template
match="arbitrary-outer-tag-thats-valid/*[1][not(following-sibling::*)]">
 B  B  B <xsl:apply-templates/>
 B  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Thanks,
Dimitre

On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 9:55b/AM Matt Van Voorhies
mvanvoorhies@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mvanvoorhies@xxxxxxxxxxx>
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

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Hi folks,__ __

__ __

    I have a hopefully simple question that I was unable to find a good
    answer for.Ibm trying to convert some code we have that manipulates
    an XML structure (transforming to HTML output) and move it into the
    XSLT transform.__ __

__ __

    Problem:Given a specific XML tag, I need to remove the bcontaining
    paragraphb but only if itbs a single containing paragraph
    tag.Parsing using .NET Saxon 10.6 for transform.__ __

__ __

So for example, if I have the following XML structure b __ __

__ __

    <arbitrary-outer-tag-thats-valid>
    <p>Some content, probably a bunch of internal tags like H1, H2, LI,
    DIV, etc.B  </p>
    <p>More content, again, may have more stuff in it like an
    <p>Internal paragraph</p></p>
    <p>stuff3</p>
    </ arbitrary-outer-tag-thats-valid >__ __

__ __

Running through the transform would produce:__ __

__ __

    <arbitrary-outer-tag-thats-valid>
    <p>Some content, probably a bunch of internal tags like H1, H2, LI,
    DIV, etc.B  </p>
    <p>More content, again, may have more stuff in it like an
    <p>Internal paragraph</p></p>
    <p>stuff3</p>
    </ arbitrary-outer-tag-thats-valid >__ __

__ __

Since there is *not* an outer/containing paragraph tag.__ __

__ __

However, if the input was b __ __

__ __

<arbitrary-outer-tag-thats-valid>__ __

    *<p>*
    <p>Some content, probably a bunch of internal tags like H1, H2, LI,
    DIV, etc.B  </p>
    <p>More content, again, may have more stuff in it like an
    <p>Internal paragraph</p></p>
    <p>stuff3</p>__ __

    *</p>*
    </ arbitrary-outer-tag-thats-valid >__ __

__ __

Running through the transform would produce:__ __

__ __

    <arbitrary-outer-tag-thats-valid>
    <p>Some content, probably a bunch of internal tags like H1, H2, LI,
    DIV, etc.B  </p>
    <p>More content, again, may have more stuff in it like an
    <p>Internal paragraph</p></p>
    <p>stuff3</p>
    </ arbitrary-outer-tag-thats-valid >__ __

__ __

    Where the single, containing <p> tag was removed, but everything
    inside of it was retained exactly as it was.__ __

__ __

Could someone help?__ __

__ __

Thanks,__ __

Matt Van Voorhies__ __

mvanvoorhies@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mvanvoorhies@xxxxxxxxxxx>__ __

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