Remove empty child and parent tags
I'm looking to find a way to remove empty child & parent tags from a request. Whilst the option 'Remove empty content' gets rid of child elements, the parent element remains in the request. Having ...
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Hi!
Try parsing the string to a DOM Document, then traverse it using DOM Traversal APIs removing empty elements as you go and then serialize the result back to a string:
Hope this helps!
regards,
/Ole
eviware.com
Try parsing the string to a DOM Document, then traverse it using DOM Traversal APIs removing empty elements as you go and then serialize the result back to a string:
// get DOM Document
Document dom = XmlUtils.parse( content );
// traverse as documented at http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/chapters/ch12.html
...
// serialize back to string
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
XmlUtils.serialize( dom, writer );
// save in context
context.setProperty( BaseHttpRequestTransport.REQUEST_CONTENT, writer.toString() );
Hope this helps!
regards,
/Ole
eviware.com
