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Posted on by AX QA 115

Hi All,

I want to remove following node from XML, how can I do this please?

Want to remove this part

<DocuRef class = "entity">
<Notes>test notes</Notes>
</DocuRef>

Full XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SalesOrder xmlns = "schemas.microsoft.com/.../SalesOrder">
<SalesTable class = "entity">

<DocuRef class = "entity">
<Notes>test notes</Notes>
</DocuRef>

</SalesTable>
</SalesOrder>

Result should be 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<SalesOrder xmlns = "schemas.microsoft.com/.../SalesOrder"> 
<SalesTable class = "entity">

</SalesTable>

</SalesOrder>

 

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  • Verified answer
    Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    Martin Dráb 239,022 Most Valuable Professional on at

    One of possible solutions is loading the whole XML string to an XMLDocument object, finding SalesTable element and DocuRef element and then calling removeChild(). You can use xml() method to convert the modified object back to string.

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    Faisal Fareed Profile Picture
    Faisal Fareed 10,796 User Group Leader on at

    Following method does the trick for me - I quickly tried

    private str removeXMLTag(str xml)

    {

       XmlDocument         doc = new XmlDocument();

       XmlElement             nodeScript;

       XmlNode                 parentNode, childNode;

       XmlNodeList            xmlScriptList,

                                       parentNodeList,

                                       childNodeList;

       int                 i,j;

       doc.loadXml(xml);

       // Get the root element and its child nodes

       nodeScript = doc.getNamedElement("SalesOrder");

       xmlScriptList = nodeScript.childNodes();

       for(i=0; i < xmlScriptList.length(); i++)

       {

           parentNode = xmlScriptList.item(i);

           childNodeList = parentNode.childNodes();

           for (j=0; j < childNodeList.length(); j++)

           {

               childNode = childNodeList.item(j);

               if (childNode.selectSingleNode("Notes"))

               {

                   parentNode.removeChild(childNode);

               }

           }

       }

       return doc.outerXml();

    }

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    AX QA 115 on at

    Thanks Martin - I will check

  • AX QA Profile Picture
    AX QA 115 on at

    Thanks Faisal I will try and will update you.

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    Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    Martin Dráb 239,022 Most Valuable Professional on at

    I would prefer some simpler code, like this:

    XmlDocument doc = XmlDocument::newXml(xml);
XmlElement salesTable, docuRef;

XmlNamespaceManager nsManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(doc.nameTable());
nsManager.addNamespace("so", "schemas.microsoft.com/.../SalesOrder");
    
salesTable = doc.selectSingleNode("so:SalesOrder/so:SalesTable", nsManager);
docuRefElement = salesTable.selectSingleNode("so:DocuRef", nsManager);  
salesTable.removeChild(docuRefElement);

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