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help.
 
This one is a standard "modified identity transform". Define one template
rule that copies nodes:
 
<xsl:template match="*">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
 
and another that copies their children:
 
<xsl:template match="somecategory">
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
 
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


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From: Job van Ommen [mailto:jobvanommen@g...] 
Sent: 20 November 2008 11:42
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject: [xml-dev] Removing nodes but leaving the tree intact



Hello Everyone,




I have a automatically generated xml tree like this:



<root>
  <someobject/>
  <someotherobject/>
  <somecategory>
    <somename>
      <somecategory>
        <someothername>
          <someobject/>
          <someotherobject/>
        </someothername>
      </somecategory>
    <someobject/>
    <someotherobject/>
  </some name>
  </some category>
</root>



I generate a lot of these files, always containing nested <somecategory>
elements.

Is there a clean way to use xsl to remove the <somecategory> elements and
return the xml intact, just without the <somecategory> elements?



Kind regards.