Remove empty/blanks elements in collection of XML nodes in C#

Remove empty/blanks elements in collection of XML nodes in C#

To remove empty or blank elements from a collection of XML nodes in C#, you can use LINQ to XML to filter out the elements that you want to remove. Here is an example:

using System.Xml.Linq;

public static class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        string xmlString = @"<root>
                                <element1></element1>
                                <element2>Some text</element2>
                                <element3>   </element3>
                                <element4>   Some more text    </element4>
                            </root>";

        XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(xmlString);
        var elements = doc.Descendants()
                          .Where(e => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(e.Value))
                          .ToList();

        foreach (var element in elements)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(element);
        }
    }
}

In this example, we have an XML string with several child elements that may contain empty or blank values. We create an XDocument object by parsing the XML string using the Parse method.

We use the Descendants method of the XDocument object to get a collection of all the elements in the XML document. We then use the Where method to filter out the elements that have empty or blank values using the IsNullOrWhiteSpace method. Finally, we convert the filtered elements to a list using the ToList method.

We then iterate over the list of elements and print them out.

Note that this example only filters elements based on their values. If you also want to filter elements based on their attributes, you can modify the Where clause to include additional conditions.

Examples

  1. "C# remove empty XML nodes from collection"

    • Description: Learn how to remove empty or blank XML nodes from a collection in C#.
    • Code:
      xmlDoc.Descendants().Where(e => string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(e.Value)).Remove();

  2. "C# remove blank attributes from XML nodes"

    • Description: Understand how to remove XML nodes with blank attributes from a collection in C#.
    • Code:
      xmlDoc.Descendants().Where(e => e.Attributes.All(a => string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(a.Value))).Remove();

  3. "C# remove empty XML elements with LINQ"

    • Description: Explore how to use LINQ to remove empty XML elements from a collection in C#.
    • Code:
      xmlDoc.Descendants().Where(e => e.IsEmpty || string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(e.Value)).Remove();

  4. "C# remove whitespace-only nodes from XML"

    • Description: Learn how to remove XML nodes containing only whitespace characters from a collection in C#.
    • Code:
      xmlDoc.Descendants().Where(e => e.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Text && string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(e.Value)).Remove();

  5. "C# remove empty XML elements and attributes"

    • Description: Understand how to remove both empty XML elements and attributes from a collection in C#.
    • Code:
      xmlDoc.DescendantsAndSelf().Where(e => (e.IsEmpty || string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(e.Value)) && e.Attributes.All(a => string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(a.Value))).Remove();

  6. "C# remove XML nodes with empty child elements"

    • Description: Explore how to remove XML nodes with empty child elements from a collection in C#.
    • Code:
      xmlDoc.Descendants().Where(e => e.Elements().All(child => string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(child.Value))).Remove();

  7. "C# remove empty XML nodes using XDocument"

    • Description: Learn how to remove empty XML nodes from a collection using XDocument in C#.
    • Code:
      xDoc.Descendants().Where(e => string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(e.Value)).Remove();

  8. "C# remove blank nodes from XML with specific condition"

    • Description: Understand how to remove XML nodes from a collection based on a specific condition in C#.
    • Code:
      xmlDoc.Descendants().Where(e => YourCondition(e)).Remove();

  9. "C# remove empty XML nodes recursively"

    • Description: Explore how to recursively remove empty XML nodes from a collection in C#.
    • Code:
      xmlDoc.DescendantsAndSelf().Where(e => e.DescendantsAndSelf().All(desc => string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(desc.Value))).Remove();

  10. "C# remove XML nodes with empty text or attributes"

    • Description: Learn how to remove XML nodes with either empty text or attributes from a collection in C#.
    • Code:
      xmlDoc.Descendants().Where(e => (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(e.Value) && e.Attributes.All(a => string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(a.Value)))).Remove();

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