I am looking for a simple way to remove elements from an XML file by specific attributes, for example: 
<journal>
<full-title>Acta Biomaterialia</full-title>
<alternate-title></alternate-title>
<ISSN>1742-7061</ISSN>
<E-ISSN></E-ISSN>
<vol-year></vol-year>
<iss-vol>1</iss-vol>
<start-date>01-01-1974</start-date>
<target>
<siteID>1</siteID>
<rank>200</rank>
<activate></activate>
</target>
</journal>

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I want search and remove the entire root element of journal by certain ISSN's that are in a list from another file. It seems like a simple "if found" statment, but I tried looking through the documentation for XML:Parser and XML:Simple, but found nothing that would assist me, maybe the logic is simpler than I think. Otherwise I have to go through 32,000 journals and remove them manually. Any help is appreciated.

In reply to Using XML modules to remove XML elements by eraymond

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