Hello Monks, I've been looking through the Monks site and other resources for answers but haven't come up with anything. (xmltwig.com seems to have disappeared.)

I'm looking for a way to delete an XML tag without deleting its contents. For example, I have this:

<li>
  <p>
   Some <b>text</b>
  </p>
</li>

And I want it to be just: 

<li>
   Some <b>text</b>
</li>
I tried this but I get an error ("cannot paste an element that belongs to a tree"): 
  if($p->parent('li')){
   my(@children) = $p->children;
   $p->delete;
   foreach my $c (@children){
    $c->paste;
   }  
  }

Forgive me as I'm a newbie at Twig and am still trying to figure out how it works.

Many thanks, Scott

In reply to XML::Twig removing tags from content by slugger415

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