Thanks

When I first typed it, it just started without showing any progress other than the OS busy cursor. After a couple of minutes I assumed that I had made a typo.

It took 37 minutes.

/William

Attributes are nodes, too [1]. Perhaps, you meant "and just the attribute, not the _element_". If so, the following query should do the job:

delete nodes //@title

Don't forget, that if you really want to shrink the database files, you need to execute OPTIMIZE ALL [2].

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-xpath-datamodel-20060711/#dt-node

[2] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Commands#OPTIMIZE

Regards,

Dimitar

Am Freitag, 16. März 2012, 15:00:12 schrieb William P. Heise:

How do I delete attributes? (and just the attribute, not the node)

Motivation:

I have a db where 20% of the attributes is the same, ‘title’, which is never used.

Deleting it could decrease the size of the db.

/William

Please consider the environment before printing.

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