- Overview
- Common Parameters
- Options - Options Tab

Overview

- The utility set identifier for this utility is: oku_set04
- The utility identifier is: xmlpruning

The XML Pruning utility allows you to compare a set of nodes in a base XML document and a second document, and to remove from the second document, any of those nodes that has the same value as the corresponding one in the base document. You can also remove a set of nodes without performing any comparison.

Common Parameters

The common parameters are the options specified from the application calling the utility rather than in the options dialog box of the utility itself. For this utility the common parameters you need to specify are the following:

Files of the first input list - Needed (XML base documents)
Root for the first input list - Not Needed
Files of the second input list - Needed (XML document to prune)
Root for the second input list - Not Needed
Files of the third input list - Not Needed
Root for the third input list - Not Needed
Input language - Not Needed
Output language - Not Needed
Input default encoding - Not Needed
Output default encoding - Not Needed
Location and names for output files - Needed

Options - Option Tab

XPath expression for the nodes to check for pruning -- Enter the absolute XPath expression to select the set of nodes to check for pruning.

Identifier's relative XPath expression -- Enter the XPath expression relative to the selected nodes, that points to the node holding the unique identifier value to use to match the nodes between the base document and the second document.

Value's relative XPath expression -- Enter the XPath expression relative to the selected nodes, that points to the node holding the value to compare between the base document and the second document.

XPath expression for the nodes to remove without comparing -- Enter the absolute XPath expression to select a set of nodes to remove from the second document without performing any comparison.