XSLT: How to exclude empty elements from my result?

Question

I have a rather complicated xslt sheet transforming one xml format to another using templates. However, in the resulting xml, I need to have all the empty elements excluded.

Answer 1

This is probably the simplest way:

If you have control of the XML generation then don't add the root node if there is no children. Regardless of which way you choose XSL is quite verbose.