How do you remove attributes from a node using Groovy's XMLSlurper and GPathResult?

Question

I need to remove the attributes from a body node in some parsed HTML (converted to XML).

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 20 '11 at 22:41

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Call the attributes() on the element that contains the attribute and then call remove('attr name') as shown below.

attributes().remove('attr name')

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answered Dec 20 '11 at 22:41

Aravind Yarram

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Ah, I couldn't see the attributes() method in the documentation. Thanks for the pointer and also see the final method I came up with. – Peter Kelley Dec 20 '11 at 23:02

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 20 '11 at 23:01

/**
 * Remove all attributes from the root body tag
 */
def removeBodyAttributes() {
    def attributeNames = bodyXml.attributes().collect {it.key}
    println attributeNames
    println bodyXml.attributes()
    attributeNames.each {bodyXml.attributes().remove(it)}
    println bodyXml.attributes()
}

How do you remove attributes from a node using Groovy's XMLSlurper and GPathResult?

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