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I would like to use Oxygen's built-in Elements > Delete element refactoring operation to delete text() nodes in <p> elements.

Given some XML like
I would like to delete the text and leave the <xref>:
However, when I try XPath expressions such as
the refactoring operation tells me "Could not find any resources that would be affected by this operation." I also found that if I tried to delete every node() in <p> elements:
then it would delete named elements but leave the text() nodes:
Somehow the text() nodes are invincible to the Elements > Delete element refactoring operation. Is there a trick to referencing them from the XPath expression textbox?

Hi Chris,

The "Delete element" refactoring operation does what it says, it matches and deletes only XML elements.
It's implemented with XQuery update, the script is located in "OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR/refactoring/delete-element.xq".
I'm not sure if we should create another predefined refactoring action for deleting text, it does not look like a very frequent use case.

Regards,
Radu

Hi Radu,

Ahh, that makes sense! The refactoring operation is fine as-is, I just got confused because other XPath-like things worked in the pattern.

Here is the reason I asked the question:

topic23614.html: Deleting everything except cross-reference structure from a book