XSLT: How to exclude empty elements from my result?

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Published on 2010-04-24T21:21:40Z Indexed on 2010/04/24 21:53 UTC
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I have a rather complicated xslt sheet transforming one xml format to another using templates. However, in the resulting xml, I need to have all the empty elements excluded. How is that done?

This is how the base xslt looks like:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:far="http://www.itella.com/fargo/fargogate/" xmlns:a="http://tempuri.org/XMLSchema.xsd" xmlns:p="http://tempuri.org/XMLSchema.xsd">
    <xsl:import href="TransportCDMtoFDM_V0.6.xsl"/>
    <xsl:import href="ConsignmentCDMtoFDM_V0.6.xsl"/>
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <InboundFargoMessage>
            <EdiSender>
                <xsl:value-of select="TransportInformationMessage/SenderId"/>
            </EdiSender>
            <EdiReceiver>
                <xsl:value-of select="TransportInformationMessage/RecipientId"/>
            </EdiReceiver>
            <EdiSource>
                <xsl:value-of select="TransportInformationMessage/Waybill/Parties/Consignor/Id"/>
            </EdiSource>
            <EdiDestination>FARGO</EdiDestination>
            <Transportations>
                <xsl:for-each select="TransportInformationMessage/TransportUnits/TransportUnit">
                    <xsl:call-template name="transport"/>
                </xsl:for-each>
                <xsl:for-each select="TransportInformationMessage/Waybill/TransportUnits/TransportUnit">
                    <xsl:call-template name="transport"/>
                </xsl:for-each>
                <xsl:for-each select="TransportInformationMessage/Waybill">
                    <EdiImportTransportationDTO>
                        <Consignments>
                            <xsl:for-each select="Shipments/Shipment">
                                <xsl:call-template name="consignment"/>
                            </xsl:for-each>
                        </Consignments>
                        <EdiTerminalDepartureTime>
                            <xsl:value-of select="DatesAndTimes/EstimatedDepartureDateTime"/>
                            <xsl:value-of select="DatesAndTimes/DepartureDateTime"/>
                        </EdiTerminalDepartureTime>
                        <EdiAgentTerminalArrivalDate>
                            <xsl:value-of select="DatesAndTimes/EstimatedArrivalDateTime"/>
                            <xsl:value-of select="DatesAndTimes/ArrivalDateTime"/>
                        </EdiAgentTerminalArrivalDate>
                        <EdiActivevehicle>
                            <xsl:value-of select="Vehicle/TransportShiftNumber"/>
                        </EdiActivevehicle>
                        <EdiConveyerZipCodeTown><xsl:text> </xsl:text></EdiConveyerZipCodeTown>
                    </EdiImportTransportationDTO>
                </xsl:for-each>
            </Transportations>
        </InboundFargoMessage>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

What needs to be added, so that empty elements are left out?

For example, a snippet from the resulting xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<InboundFargoMessage xmlns:p="http://tempuri.org/XMLSchema.xsd"
        xmlns:far="http://www.itella.com/fargo/fargogate/"
        xmlns:a="http://tempuri.org/XMLSchema.xsd">
    <EdiSender>XXXX</EdiSender>
    <EdiReceiver>YYYY</EdiReceiver>
    <EdiSource>TR/BAL/IST</EdiSource>
    <EdiDestination>FARGO</EdiDestination>
    <Transportations>
        <EdiImportTransportationDTO>
            <Consignments>
                <EdiImportConsignmentDTO>
                    <ConsignmentLines>
                        <EdiImportConsignmentLineDTO>
                            <DangerousGoodsItems>
                                <EdiImportDangerGoodsItemDTO>
                                    <EdiKolliTypeOuter/>
                                    <EdiKolliTypeInner/>
                                    <EdiTechnicalDescription/>
                                    <EdiUNno/>
                                    <EdiClass/>
                                    <EdiDangerFactor/>
                                    <EdiEmergencyTemperature/>
                                </EdiImportDangerGoodsItemDTO>
                            </DangerousGoodsItems>
                            <BarCodes>
                                <EdiImportConsignmentLineBarcodeDTO/>
                            </BarCodes>
                            <EdiNumberOfPieces>00000002</EdiNumberOfPieces>
                            <EdiGrossWeight>0.000</EdiGrossWeight>
                            <EdiHeight/>
                            <EdiWidth/>
                            <EdiLength/>
                            <EdiGoodsDescription/>
                            <EdiMarkingAndNumber/>
                            <EdiKolliType>road</EdiKolliType>
                            <EdiCbm/>
                            <EdiLdm/>
                        </EdiImportConsignmentLineDTO>

That really needs to be:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<InboundFargoMessage xmlns:p="http://tempuri.org/XMLSchema.xsd"
        xmlns:far="http://www.itella.com/fargo/fargogate/"
        xmlns:a="http://tempuri.org/XMLSchema.xsd">
    <EdiSender>XXXX</EdiSender>
    <EdiReceiver>YYYY</EdiReceiver>
    <EdiSource>TR/BAL/IST</EdiSource>
    <EdiDestination>FARGO</EdiDestination>
    <Transportations>
        <EdiImportTransportationDTO>
            <Consignments>
                <EdiImportConsignmentDTO>
                    <ConsignmentLines>
                        <EdiImportConsignmentLineDTO>
                            <DangerousGoodsItems/>
                            <BarCodes/>
                            <EdiNumberOfPieces>00000002</EdiNumberOfPieces>
                            <EdiGrossWeight>0.000</EdiGrossWeight>
                            <EdiKolliType>road</EdiKolliType>
                        </EdiImportConsignmentLineDTO>

In other words: Empty elements should be left out.

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