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Exclude attribute from a specific xml element using xslt

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What is not working? Do you want the same content, just without the @theAtribute?

If so, make sure your stylesheet has the empty template for @theAtribute, but also has an identity template that copies everything else into the output:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&gt;
    <!--empty template suppresses this attribute-->
    <xsl:template match="@theAtribute" />
    <!--identity template copies everything forward by default-->
    <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

If you only want to suppress certain @theAtribute, then you can make the match criteria more specific. For instance, if you only wanted to remove that attribute from the div who's @id="qaz", then you could use this template:

<xsl:template match="@theAtribute[../@id='qaz']" />

If you want to remove @theAttribute from all div elements, then change the match expression to:

<xsl:template match="div/@theAtribute" />

Mads Hansen 2010-06-25 11:18:04

Hello, these two i had found as well i am afraid but they are not helpful. the first one removes the "theAtribute" from everywhere (divs, body, font, etc tags). The second approach removes from everywhere the @theAtribute from all nodes with id=qaz. Is there a way for me to write <xsl:template match="@theAtribute[../@nodename='div']" />??what i need, is a mix of these two i think, but i cannot figure out the format due to mi ignorance on xslt.I which to remove the theAtribute from all divs and only from divs.

Alexandros 2010-06-25 15:00:53

I see. I didn't realize in the description that you specifically wanted to exclude `div/@theAtribute`. I've updated the answer. If your XML elements are bound to a namespace, you may need to declare the namespace in your XSLT, or use an XPATH statement that ignores the namespace and matches on the local-name (i.e. `*[local-name()='div']/@theAtribute`)

Mads Hansen 2010-06-25 17:37:09

It worked!!!! perfect solution and really fast response. Thank you Hansen!!!!

Alexandros 2010-06-28 09:24:05

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