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Posted: **Mon Aug 29, 2016 9:38 pm**

Hello,

With the previous help from the forums I was able to proceed further in my attempt to "de-specialize" my .dita file.

I used an XSLT transform using the generalize.xsl file in the DITA OT, which works great. However I have a slight modification I would like to perform, and was wondering if anyone knew how to make this change in the transform process.

Currently the tag is setup as follows:

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<step class "- topic/li task/step " id="4552654-154225">inner text</step>

When i perform the transformation, I get:

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<li class= "- topic/li task/step " id="4552654-154225">inner text</li>

Is there a way to modify it so I can choose which attributes remain? i.e if I just wanted the output to be as shown below so that it contains no trace of the specialization:

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<li class= "- topic/li " id="4552654-154225">inner text</li>

Posted: **Tue Aug 30, 2016 8:14 am**

Hi,

You probably do not need the @class attributes at all, as the DTDs already define default values for them.
So if in the "generalize.xsl" you find the XSLT template:

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<xsl:template match="*[@class]">

..................

</xsl:template>

at some point it copies all attributes:

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<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>

and you can instruct it to copy all attributes except @class:

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<xsl:copy-of select="@*[not(name()='class')]"/>

There are various online resources for learning XSLT which should be a valuable tool when working with DITA.

Regards,
Radu

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