Need help removing some Nodes

[tlhawkins]

hello,

I'm using ASP and DOM to handle some XML.

I have XML like this:

<response>
  <avail>
    <a>
      <code>AB</code>
    </a>
    <a>
      <code>DL</code>
    </a>
    <a>
      <code>MD</code>
    </a>
    <a>
      <code>DL</code>
    </a>
  </avail>
  <avail>
    <a>
      <code>MD</code>
    </a>
    <a>
      <code>DL</code>
    </a>
  </avail>
</response>

This is a little simplified, each <a> actaully has more children but I wanted to keep it small.

I need to remove every <a> (and all children) that has <code>DL</code> as a child.

Anybody know how I would go about this?
Thanks!

Travis Hawkins

http://www.bestcodingpractices.com

 

[Kalisto]

in your xpath you need to find a node with DL in it
then use ancestor::a to get the a node that contains the current node.


so assuming you are using the microsoft parser, try something like

xmlDoc.selectNodes("ancestor::a

")

 

[k5tm]

Kalisto makes a good attempt, but I think it is slightly wrong.

If you want to describe all the <a> elements that have a <code> element the value of which is 'DL', try this:

/response/avail/a[code='DL']

How this relates to ASP I will leave to others.

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com

 

[tsuji]

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>I need to remove every <a> (and all children) that has <code>DL</code> as a child.
What have you done sofar? The problem is how do you want to remove them. The natural way to doing it is also dictated by how every ingredient (xml/xsl/...) is made available to the server as an agent? TI one says: open the xml source file with notepad and select-highlight-delete, you won't be happy, will you?