how to apply xsl stylesheet only for a particaular tag

[ashish.saket]

Hi all,
H i have an xslt file which does some function say to suppress the
empty tags in complex elements.
for ex if i have an xml
<A>
<B>value</B>
<ReturnData>
<C1>value</C1>
<C2>value</C2>
<C3/>
</ReturnData>
<D>
<D1>value</D1>
<D2>value</D2>
<D3/>
</D>
<E>value</E>
</A>
now the o/p should be
<A>
<B>value</B>
<ReturnData>
<C1>value</C1>
<C2>value</C2>
</ReturnData>
<D>
<D1>value</D1>
<D2>value</D2>
<D3/>
</D>
<E>value</E>
</A>

basically we want to suppress any empty tags within <ReturnDatatag.
this <ReturnDatatag is common in all responses that we deal with
however the structure n the name of elements within <ReturnDatatag
varies with every response.
now we would like to have a generic xslt which we can apply to all the
response xmls
but it should suppress the empty tags within <ReturnDatatag only
regards
ashish

[Martin Honnen]

as**********@googlemail.com wrote:

H i have an xslt file which does some function say to suppress the
empty tags in complex elements.
for ex if i have an xml
<A>
<B>value</B>
<ReturnData>
<C1>value</C1>
<C2>value</C2>
<C3/>
</ReturnData>
<D>
<D1>value</D1>
<D2>value</D2>
<D3/>
</D>
<E>value</E>
</A>
now the o/p should be
<A>
<B>value</B>
<ReturnData>
<C1>value</C1>
<C2>value</C2>

Start with the identity transformation template

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

then make sure that those empty child elements of ReturnData elements
are not processed further e.g.

<xsl:template match="ReturnData/*[not(node())]"/>

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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[ashish.saket]

Thanks Mr. Martin...

one more issue i am facing is that there can be many levels of nesting
inside the "ReturnData" element as shown below:
....
....
<ReturnData>
<C1>value</C1>
<C2>value</C2>
<C3/>
<C4>
<D1>value</D1>
<D2>value</D2>
<D3/>
<C4>
</ReturnData>
....

How to use the xsl code for this nesting mode?

[Martin Honnen]

as**********@googlemail.com wrote:

one more issue i am facing is that there can be many levels of nesting
inside the "ReturnData" element as shown below:

Then
<xsl:template match="ReturnData//*[not(node())]"/>
instead of my ealier suggestion should do what you want.

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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/