Re: [basex-talk] XQuery Update: remove-elements-not-contents

to get

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Is there any way, to do it with the help of BaseX XQuery Update?

There are hundred ways ;) One looks as follows:

db:create( 'index', for $item in db:open('data') return $item update ( delete node .//(note|sic), for $p in .//p return replace value of node $p with string(p) ), db:open('data')/db:path(.) )