get rid of empty nodes

Okay, this is probably a really stupid question - but I just can't figure it
out.

I have a large xml document which is being transformed into another using
..net xsl - some elements inside of which do not have any data at some times
but do at others. If they don't have any data, I want to suppress the
generation of the tag completely in the resulting xml.

So for example, if I have a document:

<root>
<a>alksjdfsd</a>
<b>sdkfjlsdkf </b>
<c/>
<d>askdjf</d>
</root>

and i run it throught the transform, i want:

<new_root>
<new_a>asdfas f</new_a>
<new_b>askljf s</new_b>
<new_d>asdfasdf </new_d>
</new_root>

Something simple i'm missing????

Cheers

Chris

[Oleg Tkachenko]

ch***@yahoo.com wrote:

Okay, this is probably a really stupid question - but I just can't figure it
out.

I have a large xml document which is being transformed into another using
.net xsl - some elements inside of which do not have any data at some times
but do at others. If they don't have any data, I want to suppress the
generation of the tag completely in the resulting xml.

So for example, if I have a document:

<root>
<a>alksjdfsd</a>
<b>sdkfjlsdkf </b>
<c/>
<d>askdjf</d>
</root>

and i run it throught the transform, i want:

<new_root>
<new_a>asdfas f</new_a>
<new_b>askljf s</new_b>
<new_d>asdfasdf </new_d>
</new_root>

Well, you can merely test if an element has no children nodes and
generate nothing then:

<xsl:template match="c">
<xsl:if test="node()">
<new_c>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</new_c>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

--
Oleg Tkachenko
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog
Multiconn Technologies, Israel

[Oleg Tkachenko]

ch***@yahoo.com wrote:

Thanks for the reply. I figured that, but I was hoping for a global setting
as I'm very lazy!!!!

Then just don't apply templates to empty elements:
on parent element:

<!-- apply templates to all children elements, which have any children
nodes -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="*[node()]"/>

Alternatively you can provide dummy template for empty elements:
<xsl:template match="*[not(node())]" priority="10"/>
Due to high priority this template will prevail even more concrete
<xsl:template match="c">
This solution semms like what you want - just one template for empty
elememnts will supress their processing.
--
Oleg Tkachenko
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog
Multiconn Technologies, Israel