code Clean XML |
XSLT Style Sheet
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"/>
<!-- Whenever you match any node or any attribute -->
<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
<!-- Copy the current node -->
<xsl:if test="normalize-space(.) != '' or normalize-space(./@*) != '' ">
<xsl:copy>
<!-- Including any attributes it has and any child nodes -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Sample Code implementation
public static string RemoveEmptyTags(string sXML)
{
System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append("<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>");
sb.Append("<xsl:stylesheet ");
sb.Append(" version="1.0" ");
sb.Append(" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"");
sb.Append(" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">");
sb.Append(" <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"/>");
sb.Append(" <!-- Whenever you match any node or any attribute -->");
sb.Append(" <xsl:template match="node()|@*">");
sb.Append(" <!-- Copy the current node -->");
sb.Append(" <xsl:if test="normalize-space(.) != '' or normalize-space(./@*) != '' ">");
sb.Append(" <xsl:copy>");
sb.Append(" <!-- Including any attributes it has and any child nodes -->");
sb.Append(" <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>");
sb.Append(" </xsl:copy>");
sb.Append(" </xsl:if>");
sb.Append(" </xsl:template>");
sb.Append("</xsl:stylesheet>");
return utils.transXMLStringThroughXSLTString(sXML,sb.ToString());
}
private static string transXMLStringThroughXSLTString(string sXML, string sXSLT)
{
//This is the logic of the application.
XslTransform objTransform=new XslTransform();
XmlDocument objDocument=new XmlDocument();
StringWriter objStream=new StringWriter();
//objDocument.Load(strAppPath+"\BookFair.xml");
objDocument.LoadXml(sXML);
StringReader stream = new StringReader(sXSLT);
XmlReader xmlR = new XmlTextReader(stream);
objTransform.Load(xmlR,null,null);
objTransform.Transform(objDocument,null,
objStream,null);
return objStream.ToString().Replace(@"encoding=""utf-16""?>",@"encoding=""utf-8""?>");
}
Last Modified 5/10/04 3:36 PM