@davbistrath​ You could just use a regular expression:

<Remarks>.*?</Remarks>

in the StringReplacer. The ? make the .* match non-greedy so s it will remove multiple remark tags.

So the pattern in FME would be:

Textine reader - set the parameter Read Whole File At Once: Yes

StringReplacer - Mode: Replace Regular Expression

I've attached an example. (FME 2021.2)

Thank you very much, I will incorporate this.

Hi @davbistrath​ , I believe that XMLUpdater works as expected, if you need to remove all the <Remarks> elements from an XML document, like this.

Before

<Features><Feature>aaa</Feature><Remarks>bbb</Remarks><Feature>ccc</Feature><Remarks>ddd</Remarks>
</Features>

After

<Features><Feature>aaa</Feature><Feature>ccc</Feature>
</Features>

​

XMLUpdater parameters settings should be:

​

Just be aware that XMLUpdater always requires input from the Update port even if you don't need to use any attributes from the input feature. In this case, you can just send a feature created by the Creator.

mAdd] If you need to remove only the contents of <Remarks> elements, this setting is available.

<Features><Feature>aaa</Feature><Remarks>bbb</Remarks><Feature>ccc</Feature><Remarks>ddd</Remarks>
</Features>

<Features><Feature>aaa</Feature><Feature>ccc</Feature>
</Features>

That's great, I see where I went wrong. Thanks!

Thanks for asking this great question. I made this our Question of the Week and posted a video about it on YouTube. Of course, Takashi has made a great answer already!

<Features><Feature>aaa</Feature><Remarks>bbb</Remarks><Feature>ccc</Feature><Remarks>ddd</Remarks>
</Features>

<Features><Feature>aaa</Feature><Feature>ccc</Feature>
</Features>

So another question, I'm scanning a folder and wanting to modify all the files. I've setup a Folder and File Pathnames reader and have set my  XMLUpdater parameters as such: 

It's giving me an error that it can't find the files. Is this the correct way to handle this?

Thanks

I suppose that the user parameter "SourceDataset_PATH" indicates a folder path, rather than XML file path. The PATH reader outputs features containing attribute called "path_unix" (or "path_windows") which stores a file path. Try setting the attribute to the XML File parameter.