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 >