I'm trying to strip empty elements and empty attributes from a document but leave in elements that are empty but have attributes that are populated. So far I've got the following code which removes all empty elements even if they have attributes populated. How do I add a conditions so something like <employee id="60"/> does not get stripped?

Thanks,
Dan


<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@*[.='']"/>
<xsl:template match="*[not(node())]"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

I tend to tackle this kind of problem by applying templates only to elements and not to attributes (no real reason, just personal preference). That makes it:

<xsl:template match="*">
  <xsl:copy>
  <xsl:copy-of select="@*[.!='']"/>
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*[.=''][not(@*[.!=''])]"/>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference