Question

I need to rearrange all the the child elements of an XML Document underneath the first Parent (and discard all other parent info)

In the example below, I need all 4 child elements under Parent[ParentField=1] and discard Parent[ParentField=X]

<xml>
    <Parent>
        <ParentField>1</ParentField>
        <Children>
            <Child>
                <id>1</id>
            </Child>
            <Child>
                <id>2</id>
            </Child>
        </Children>
    </Parent>
    <Parent>
        <ParentField>X</ParentField>
        <Children>
            <Child>
                <id>3</id>
            </Child>
            <Child>
                <id>4</id>
            </Child>
        </Children>
    </Parent>
</xml>

Resulting in XML like so:

<xml>
    <Parent>
        <ParentField>1</ParentField>
        <Children>
            <Child>
                <id>1</id>
            </Child>
            <Child>
                <id>2</id>
            </Child>
            <Child>
                <id>3</id>
            </Child>
            <Child>
                <id>4</id>
            </Child>
        </Children>
    </Parent>
</xml>

Answer 1

This stylesheet:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:param name="pParentField" select="1"/>
    <xsl:template match="node()|@*" name="identity">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="Parent">
        <xsl:if test="ParentField = $pParentField">
            <xsl:call-template name="identity"/>
        </xsl:if>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="Children">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="/xml/Parent/Children/Child"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

<xml>
    <Parent>
        <ParentField>1</ParentField>
        <Children>
            <Child>
                <id>1</id>
            </Child>
            <Child>
                <id>2</id>
            </Child>
            <Child>
                <id>3</id>
            </Child>
            <Child>
                <id>4</id>
            </Child>
        </Children>
    </Parent>
</xml>