Howdy Julie,

Depending on your specific needs, it's often easier/faster to use string
rather than XML operations to work with XML.

Especially if you have a large number of files and/or the files are very
big, stripping the whitespace between elements and then performing a simple
string substitution would be a fast low tech way to remove the unwanted
fields.

kyle

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Julie Swierczek <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Thanks to all who responded to my earlier plea for help.  I now have a new
> problem.  I'm not sure if I can do this with find and replace in Oxygen, or
> if this requires XSLT, or what.
>
> I have a project of MARCXML records like this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <marc:collection xmlns:marc="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"
>     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>     xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/schema/MARC21slim.xsd">
>   <marc:record>
> <!--Lots of other datafields here -->
>     <marc:datafield tag="710" ind1="2" ind2=" ">
>             <marc:subfield code="a">Faux College</marc:subfield>
>             <marc:subfield code="b">Special Collections</marc:subfield>
>         </marc:datafield>
>   </marc:record>
> </marc:collection>
>
> I want to strip out all instances of:
>     <marc:datafield tag="710" ind1="2" ind2=" ">
>             <marc:subfield code="a">Faux College</marc:subfield>
>             <marc:subfield code="b">Special Collections</marc:subfield>
>         </marc:datafield>
> but I want to leave other <marc:datafield tag="710" ind1="2" ind2=" ">
> instances intact.  I only want to delete ones with both the Faux College
> and Special Collections text in the subfields.
>
> Where would I go from here? I thought of doing an xsl:template match in an
> XSL stylesheet, and then not providing any instructions for replacing the
> match, but I don't know how to select for that specific text. My attempts
> to figure that out have not worked. You can only read so much W3C
> documentation and Stack Overflow before you need to just sit quietly and
> stare at a wall for a while.
>
> Thanks in advance --
>
> Julie
>