abrahamregisraj@g... wrote:


> 1. if the newly formed element has all the attributes as blanks (""),
> then that should not be present.

That is a bit difficult with the current design of the stylesheet as you 
can't add elements and attributes to the result tree and later check 
them to remove them.
So you need a further check, either in the pattern or with an xsl:if e.g.

<xsl:template match="*[starts-with(local-name(), 'level')]">
   <xsl:if test="normalize-space(name) != '' or 
normalize-space(description) != ''">
   <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:apply-templates select="name | description" 
mode="element-to-attribute" />
     <xsl:apply-templates select="*[not(self::name) and 
not(self::description)]" />
   </xsl:copy>
   </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>


> 2. The elements that do not start with "level" should not be present in
> the output XML file.

Well you had a root element named myxml, it is usually not possible to 
remove that as it contains several child elements.
And your original sample only had myxml, level<n>, name, and description 
elements which all got processed.
If those level<n> elements have other child elements you do not want to 
process then change the

     <xsl:apply-templates select="*[not(self::name) and 
not(self::description)]" />

to

     <xsl:apply-templates select="*[starts-with(local-name(), 'level')]"/>

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