That works great. Thanks
"Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@c...> wrote in message 
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>
> "Gan Kol" <gankol@g...> wrote in message 
> news:uYgPV9PRJHA.5080@T......
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an xml something like this.
>> <Test>
>>    <Type>New</Type>
>>    <Lang>
>>       <English>
>>            <Screenplay>test11</Screenplay>
>>            <Script>script11</Script>
>>         </English>
>>       <ExpiryDate>2009-10-10</ExpiryDate>
>>    </Lang>
>>    <StudentNumber>1234333</StudentNumber>
>>    <RequestDate>2008-10-10</RequestDate>
>>    <FirstName>David</FirstName>
>>    <MiddleName>-</MiddleName>
>>    <LastName>Burges</LastName>
>>    <Qualifier>-</Qualifier>
>>    <Status></Status>
>>  </Test>
>>
>> I would like to have an output xml as the same structure as above, but
>> Omit the elements if a "-" is the only data in the element (for eg. 
>> should keep the date element expiry date, but omit MiddleName, Qualifier)
>> Since i dont know about the xml data and structure inside the xml when 
>> doing the xsl transformation, i tried using xsl copy instead of select,
>> but didnt know how to check for the conditions.
>
>
> The following override of the identity transformation is a natural 
> solution:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>
> <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="node()|@*">
>   <xsl:copy>
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
>   </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match=
>    "*[text() and not(node()[not(self::text())])]
>                       [normalize-space() = '-']"/>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> When applied on the originally specified xml document:
>
> <Test>
> <Type>New</Type>
> <Lang>
>  <English>
>   <Screenplay>test11</Screenplay>
>   <Script>script11</Script>
>  </English>
>  <ExpiryDate>2009-10-10</ExpiryDate>
> </Lang>
> <StudentNumber>1234333</StudentNumber>
> <RequestDate>2008-10-10</RequestDate>
> <FirstName>David</FirstName>
> <MiddleName>-</MiddleName>
> <LastName>Burges</LastName>
> <Qualifier>-</Qualifier>
> <Status></Status>
> </Test>
>
> the wanted result is produced:
>
> <Test>
>   <Type>New</Type>
>   <Lang>
>      <English>
>         <Screenplay>test11</Screenplay>
>         <Script>script11</Script>
>      </English>
>      <ExpiryDate>2009-10-10</ExpiryDate>
>   </Lang>
>   <StudentNumber>1234333</StudentNumber>
>   <RequestDate>2008-10-10</RequestDate>
>   <FirstName>David</FirstName>
>   <LastName>Burges</LastName>
>   <Status/>
> </Test>
>
> Hope this helped.
>
> Cheers,
> Dimitre Novatchev
>