XPATH remove attribute

Question

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 remove rel='some text'.

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

Answer 1

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.