select all children with attributes

Question

how can I get all children that have any (not specific) attributes in xpath or xsl?

e.g:

<person id= "11">
        <name>A name</name>
        <language lang="en">Hello</language >
        <country region="Africa">Egypt</country>
        <date-of-birth>2002</date-of-birth>
</person>

And I want to get back:

<language lang="en">Hello</language >
<country region="Africa">Egypt</country>

Answer 1

If you use /person/*[@*] then you select the child elements of the person element that have at least one attribute.