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    copied!<blockquote> <p>Would it be simpler to remove the unwanted attributes using Regex?</p> </blockquote> <p>No, this is a very simple XSLT operation:</p> <p><strong>This transformation</strong>:</p> <pre><code>&lt;xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&gt; &lt;xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/&gt; &lt;xsl:strip-space elements="*"/&gt; &lt;xsl:template match="node()|@*"&gt; &lt;xsl:copy&gt; &lt;xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/&gt; &lt;/xsl:copy&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; &lt;xsl:template match= "Response/@*[contains('|Timeout|PersonKey|Object|Username|', concat('|',name(),'|') ) ]"/&gt; &lt;xsl:template match="@*"&gt; &lt;xsl:element name="{name()}"&gt; &lt;xsl:value-of select="."/&gt; &lt;/xsl:element&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; &lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>when applied on the provided XML document</strong>:</p> <pre><code>&lt;Kronos_WFC encoding="ASCII" version="1.0" WFCVersion="6.1" TimeStamp="01/5/2011 8:38AM"&gt; &lt;Response Status="Success" Timeout="1800" PersonKey="-1" Object="System" Username="1" Action="Logon" PersonNumber="1"&gt;&lt;/Response&gt; &lt;Response Status="Success" action="Load"&gt; &lt;ScheduleGroup ScheduleGroupName="SomeName" AllowsInheritance="false" AllowContract="false" IsEmploymentTerm="false" /&gt; &lt;ScheduleGroup ScheduleGroupName="GreatName" AllowsInheritance="true" AllowContract="false" IsEmploymentTerm="false" /&gt; &lt;ScheduleGroup ScheduleGroupName="BestName" AllowsInheritance="true" AllowContract="false" IsEmploymentTerm="false" /&gt; &lt;/Response&gt; &lt;Response Status="Success" Object="System" Action="Logoff"&gt;&lt;/Response&gt; &lt;/Kronos_WFC&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>produces exactly the wanted, correct result</strong>:</p> <pre><code>&lt;Kronos_WFC&gt; &lt;encoding&gt;ASCII&lt;/encoding&gt; &lt;version&gt;1.0&lt;/version&gt; &lt;WFCVersion&gt;6.1&lt;/WFCVersion&gt; &lt;TimeStamp&gt;01/5/2011 8:38AM&lt;/TimeStamp&gt; &lt;Response&gt; &lt;Status&gt;Success&lt;/Status&gt; &lt;Action&gt;Logon&lt;/Action&gt; &lt;PersonNumber&gt;1&lt;/PersonNumber&gt; &lt;/Response&gt; &lt;Response&gt; &lt;Status&gt;Success&lt;/Status&gt; &lt;action&gt;Load&lt;/action&gt; &lt;ScheduleGroup&gt; &lt;ScheduleGroupName&gt;SomeName&lt;/ScheduleGroupName&gt; &lt;AllowsInheritance&gt;false&lt;/AllowsInheritance&gt; &lt;AllowContract&gt;false&lt;/AllowContract&gt; &lt;IsEmploymentTerm&gt;false&lt;/IsEmploymentTerm&gt; &lt;/ScheduleGroup&gt; &lt;ScheduleGroup&gt; &lt;ScheduleGroupName&gt;GreatName&lt;/ScheduleGroupName&gt; &lt;AllowsInheritance&gt;true&lt;/AllowsInheritance&gt; &lt;AllowContract&gt;false&lt;/AllowContract&gt; &lt;IsEmploymentTerm&gt;false&lt;/IsEmploymentTerm&gt; &lt;/ScheduleGroup&gt; &lt;ScheduleGroup&gt; &lt;ScheduleGroupName&gt;BestName&lt;/ScheduleGroupName&gt; &lt;AllowsInheritance&gt;true&lt;/AllowsInheritance&gt; &lt;AllowContract&gt;false&lt;/AllowContract&gt; &lt;IsEmploymentTerm&gt;false&lt;/IsEmploymentTerm&gt; &lt;/ScheduleGroup&gt; &lt;/Response&gt; &lt;Response&gt; &lt;Status&gt;Success&lt;/Status&gt; &lt;Action&gt;Logoff&lt;/Action&gt; &lt;/Response&gt; &lt;/Kronos_WFC&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>Explanation:</strong></p> <ol> <li><p>The identity rule/template copies every node "as-is".</p></li> <li><p>The template overriding the identity rule that matches any attribute with name <code>Timeout</code>, <code>PersonKey</code>, <code>Object</code>, or <code>Username</code> has empty body and doesn't copy them ("deletes" them from the output)</p></li> <li><p>The template matching any attribute creates an element whose name is the name of the matched attribute and whose text node-child is the value of the matched attribute.</p></li> </ol> <p><strong>Remember</strong>: Using and overriding <strong><a href="http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/identity.html">the identity rule</a></strong> is the most fundamental and powerful XSLT design pattern.</p>
 

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