CA API Management: Remove XML elements using XSLT

Products

• STARTER PACK-7
• CA Rapid App Security
• CA API Gateway

Issue/Introduction

How can you remove XML elements using XSLT?

Environment

Release: L7SGA299000-8.4-API Gateway SOA Gateway-HARDWARE APPLIANCE DUAL CPU
Component:

Resolution

Given the below XML this XSLT can be used to remove particular elements from XML, in this example the "author" and "year" tags will be removed.

You can customize these values to meet your needs.

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XML

<bookstore>

<book category="API">

   <title lang="en">CA API Management</title>

   <author>John Doe</author>

   <year>2017</year>

   <price>30.00</price>

</book>

</bookstore>

 

 

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XSLT

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:output indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

 <xsl:template match="node()|@*">

  <xsl:copy>

   <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>

  </xsl:copy>

 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="author|year"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>