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akshay
akshay

Reputation: 5285

stripping of some tags of xml document

I have a xml doc as below.

<data>
     <employee>
       <moretag> may or may not contain inner tag and attributes</moretag>
       <somemore>  may contain inner tags</somemore>
     </employee>
</data>

i want op as below

 <employee>
       <moretag> may or may not contain inner tag and attributes</moretag>
       <somemore>  may contain inner tags</somemore>
  </employee>

That is i want to strip off data tags.How can i do it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 148

Answers (3)

Sebastian
Sebastian

Reputation: 1179

Do it with XSLT

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl">
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
  <xsl:template match="data">
    <xsl:copy-of select="child::node()" />
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Upvotes: 1

Ravish
Ravish

Reputation: 2447

You cannot simply strip off some node like that.

The simple logic of what you tend to achieve is that you make a copy of firstChild of root node i.e. and replace the root node with it.

P.S. that you have only one child under the root node.

Upvotes: 0

Thor
Thor

Reputation: 6656

You can use jdom for this:

InputStream is = new FileInputStream(xmlFileName);
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8");
Document doc = new SAXBuilder().build(isr);

Element data = doc.getRootElement();
Element employee = data.getChild("employee");

XMLOutputter xmlOut = new XMLOutputter(Format.getPrettyFormat());
xmlOut.output(employee, System.out);

Upvotes: 1

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