The general way to recursively transform one node tree to another in XQuery is via recursive descent <https://gist.github.com/jmakeig/7273340b3065f442030451d04587c466#file-identity-transform-xqy>.
I can't quite tell from your description what your transformation needs to do, though. "Strip out everything in between" what? Can you give a more fleshed out example of the input and your expected output? Justin > On Mar 17, 2017, at 1:28 PM, Kari Cowan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Inside my return for a query, I have an HTML node that I don’t need that > includes a bunch of child elements -- I want to strip out everything in > between; alternately I could be happy to remove the node entirely from the > returned data. Is there a function for that I don’t know about or is th is > better done with a regex? Anyone have a tip they can share? > > <HTML xmlns:occurrenceattr="http://luxid.temis.com/occurrence/attribute"; > xmlns:entityattr="http://luxid.temis.com/entity/attribute"; > xmlns:entity="http://luxid.temis.com/entity"; > xmlns:category="http://luxid.temis.com/category"; xmlns="incisive-repository" > xmlns:i="incisive-repository"> (bunches of child elements here ) </HTML> > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > Manage your subscription at: > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] Manage your subscription at: http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
