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XML editing Question (find nodes with specific attribute and delete)

SeattleSleeper

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Hi All,

I have a bucket load of P3D scenery files (XML's) that I wish to perform a very specific set of operations on:

1. FIND all nodes of (sceneryObject) that have an "alt" attribute set to a specific number.
2. Delete all the nodes found containing the specific "alt" number.

There are potentially thousands of nodes to delete, so hand editing is out of the question.

I have some programming experience in C and Python and was leaning towards implementing something in one of those languages. However, I have little experience with XML.

I thought I would check with the community for recommendations on the easiest approach to the problem.

How would you guys approach this task?

Thanks,

Terry
 
Study the Find in Files feature of the freeware editor Notepad++. It is extremely powerful for making identical changes to multiple files.
 
Jay Bloomfield said:
Study the Find in Files feature of the freeware editor Notepad++. It is extremely powerful for making identical changes to multiple files.
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Yes Notepad++ is good for text search/replace. However, my task is to find all SceneryObjects in the XML that have a specific attribute value, then delete the entire SceneryObject node, so a simple search/replace will not work.
 
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