XPATH remove attribute

Hi does anyone know hwo to remove an attrbute using xpath. In particular the rel attribute and its text from a link. i.e. <a href='http://google.com' rel='some text'>Link</a> and i want to开发者_运维问答 remove rel='some text'.

There will be multiple links in the html i am parsing.

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You can select items using xpath, but that's all it can do - it is a query language.

You need to use XSLT or an XML parser in order to remove attributes/elements.

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As pointed out by Oded, Xpath merely identifies XML nodes. To remove/edit XML, you need some additional tooling.

One solution is the Ant-based plugin XMLTask (disclaimer - I wrote this). It provides a simple mechanism to read an XML file, identify parts of that using XPath, and change it (including removing nodes).

e.g.

<remove path="web/servlet/context[@id='redundant']"/>

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Have you already tried using Javascript for this If that is applicable in your scenario:-

var allLinks=document.getElementsByTagName("a");

for(i=0;i<allLinks.length;i++)
{
allLinks[i].removeAttribute("rel");
}