Ryan Gomez wrote:

> How do I go about transforming the XML document below into result.xml? Basically what I'm aiming for is to remove one of the element but keeping the children. So I would like to remove the <Location> element but keep the <City> element (the <City> element being the child element of <Location>). Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
> 
> <User>
> 
>   <TITLE>Mrs</TITLE>
> 
>   <INITIALS>D</INITIALS>
> 
>   <FIRST_NAME>Doris</FIRST_NAME>
> 
>   <LAST_NAME>Smith</LAST_NAME>
> 
> <Location>
> 
>       <City>London</City>
> 
> </Location>
> 
> </User>
> 
> ** How do I transform this to**
> 
> 
> <User>
> 
>   <TITLE>Mrs</TITLE>
> 
>   <INITIALS>D</INITIALS>
> 
>   <FIRST_NAME>Doris</FIRST_NAME>
> 
>   <LAST_NAME>Smith</LAST_NAME>
> 
>     <City>London</City>
> 
> </User>

You need two templates, one is the identity transformation template

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

then a second template for the 'Location' elements that simply processes 
any child nodes

   <xsl:template match="Location">
     <xsl:apply-templates/>
   </xsl:template>

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