Hi All,

given the source document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
	<child>
		<test id="1" name="first child"/>
	</child>
	<child>
		<test id="2" name="second child"/>
	</child>
	<child>
		<test id="3" name="third child"/>
	</child>
</root>

I would suppress the the child elements that contain a test element
with the value of the id attribute in a list of known ids; for
instance, assuming that the list of ids to remove is {1,3}, I would
obtain the document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
	<child>
		<test id="2" name="second child"/>
	</child>
</root>

where only the second child element is retained.

I'm only able to suppress a single child element using the following
XSL transform;

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
	<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />
	<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
		<xsl:copy>
			<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
		</xsl:copy>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template match="child[test[@id='1']]"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Is it possible to match and suppress multiple child elements whose ids
are contained in a given list ?

Since I'm invoking the transform from Java, I would like to set a
template parameter to the list of ids to be removed; e.g. as comma
delimited list, and write the last match condition as something like
this:

...
    <xsl:param name="idToRemove" select="default" />
    <xsl:template match="child[test[@id in $idsToRemove]]"/>
...

Note that I'm using XSLT 1.0, so I cannot leverage the enhancements of
XSLT 2.0, but I'm wondering if there is some trick to do the job; for
instance injecting the list of ids to remove into the same XSLT
document and then iterating over them and suppressing any matching
child element from the source document... maybe something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
	xmlns:data="http://sample.array.parameters/data" version="1.0">
	<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />
	<data:parameters>
		<id>1</id>
		<id>3</id>
	</data:parameters>
	<xsl:variable name="parameters-root"
select="document('')/*/data:parameters"/>
	<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
		<xsl:copy>
			<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
		</xsl:copy>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template match="child[test[@id in $parameters-root]]"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Thanks a lot for any suggestion

Regards,

   Patrizio