XSLT: How to remove the self-closed elment
- by Daoming Yang
I have a large xml file which contents a lot of self-closed tags. How could remove all them by using XSLT.
eg.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Persons>
<Person>
<Name>user1</Name>
<Tel />
<Mobile>123</Mobile>
</Person>
<Person>
<Name>user2</Name>
<Tel>456</Tel>
<Mobile />
</Person>
<Person>
<Name />
<Tel>123</Tel>
<Mobile />
</Person>
<Person>
<Name>user4</Name>
<Tel />
<Mobile />
</Person>
</Persons>
I'm expecting the result:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Persons>
<Person>
<Name>user1</Name>
<Mobile>123</Mobile>
</Person>
<Person>
<Name>user2</Name>
<Tel>456</Tel>
</Person>
<Person>
<Tel>123</Tel>
</Person>
<Person>
<Name>user4</Name>
</Person>
</Persons>
Note: there are thousands of different elements, how can I programmatically remove all the self-closed tags. Another question is how to remove the empty element such as <name></name> as well.
Can anyone help me on this? Many thanks.
