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el_pollo_del_mar

Hi,

I'm trying to traverse an XML message tree to remove all empty tags: ie, any tags of the type <A></A> or <A/>.
If my input message looks like this:
<A>
<B>
</B>
<C>
<D>...</D>
</C>
</A>
I would like the output to look like:
<A>
<C>
<D>...</D>
</C>
</A>

My first attempt used dynamic references to step through the message tree and detect all empty tags with a IF TagName = '' test. This had an unfortunate side effect of detecting parent tags as being empty (since they contained no data, only child tags).

I know that a CARDINALITY test will return 0 if a tag is empty and has no child tags. However, I don't know how to incorporate this into the process of stepping through the message tree.

Is there anyway of either combining a cardinality test with dynamic references, or is there some other solution to stepping through the message tree and removing these empty tags?