Delete node/element but not its child

Post by **StefanG** » Wed Dec 05, 2012 5:03 pm

I need to delete certain nodes in an xml document without deleting their childs.

Here a simplified sample. In this example I want to delete all span elements that have a img child (somewhere).

Before:

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<body>

  <p><span><img src="test.png"/></span></p>

  <p><span class="foo"><img src="test.png"/></span></p>

  <p><span class="test"><b><img src="test.png"/></b></span></p>

  <p><span class="test"><b><i><img src="test.png"/></i></b></span></p>

  <p>Please open menu <span class="uistring">File</span> and select ...</p>

</body>

After:

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<body>

  <p><img src="test.png"/></p>

  <p><img src="test.png"/></p>

  <p><b><img src="test.png"/></b></p>

  <p><b><i><img src="test.png"/></i></b></p>

  <p>Please open menu <span class="uistring">File</span> and select ...</p>

</body>

I can regex search for .* with xpath //span[descendant::*/img] but i will always also delete all childs of the node found. And that's exactly what I now want to do.

That is, basically it should work like placing the cursor in a span tag and select Refactoring - Delete Element Tags (Alt-Shift-X).

How can I do this (without XSLT)?

(Samples are for demonstration purposes only not the actual code.)

Post by **StefanG** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 1:47 am

*push*

Post by **adrian** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 5:36 pm

Hi,

Apologies for the late reply.

You can accomplish this in the Find/Replace dialog from Oxygen with the following:
Text to find: <span.*?>(.*?)</span>
Replace with: $1
XPath: //span[descendant-or-self::img]
Regular expression
Dot matches all (if the span element spreads to multiple lines)

Regards,
Adrian

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