Exclude attribute from a specific xml element using xslt

Question

I am new in xslt. I have the following problem. I need within an xml, to remove a specific attribute (theAttributein the example) from a specific element (e.g.

Answer 1

What is not working? Do you want the same content, just without the @theAtribute?

If so, make sure your stylesheet has the empty template for @theAtribute, but also has an identity template that copies everything else into the output:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <!--empty template suppresses this attribute-->
    <xsl:template match="@theAtribute" />
    <!--identity template copies everything forward by default-->
    <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

If you only want to suppress certain @theAtribute, then you can make the match criteria more specific. For instance, if you only wanted to remove that attribute from the div who's @id="qaz", then you could use this template:

<xsl:template match="@theAtribute[../@id='qaz']" />

or this template:

<xsl:template match="*[@id='qaz']/@theAtribute" />

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If you want to remove @theAttribute from all div elements, then change the match expression to:

<xsl:template match="div/@theAtribute" />

Answer 2

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0"  
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" >

        <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" />
        <xsl:param name="status"/>

        <!--If attribute is present change it -->
        <xsl:template match="@status" >
            <xsl:attribute name="status" select="$status"/>
        </xsl:template>
        <!-- If attribute is not present add it al last position -->
        <xsl:template match="row[ not( @status ) ]" >
            <xsl:copy>
                <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
                <!-- put attribute in the last position -->
                <xsl:attribute name="status" select="$status"/>
                <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
            </xsl:copy>
        </xsl:template>

        <!--identity template copies everything forward by default-->
        <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
            <xsl:copy>
                <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
            </xsl:copy>
        </xsl:template>

    </xsl:stylesheet>

I have a xml like:

<row  attribute1="value" >some stuff</row> 

and I'm adding at end of list of attributes a status from an outside value.

\saxonee\bin\Transform.exe -xsl:my_script.xsl -s:rows.xml status="completed"

<row current_run="2019-07-29 19:00" status="completed">

Answer 3

inside the select, you can exclude (or include,) the attribute, using the name function.

For example, <xsl:copy-of select="@*[name(.)!='theAtribute']|node()" />