Delete Nodes
Description and syntax
Deletes one or more nodes.
delete node nodeSequence
delete nodes nodeSequence
Details
•The expression nodeSequence returns a sequence of the node/s to delete. All selected nodes will be marked for deletion.
•It does not matter whether the singular node or plural nodes is used. No correspondence is needed with the number of items in nodeSequence.
Examples
for \$i in /book/section return
delete nodes \$i/@id