<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:wix="http://wixtoolset.org/schemas/v4/wxs" xmlns="http://wixtoolset.org/schemas/v4/wxs" version="1.0" exclude-result-prefixes="xsl wix"> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes" /> <xsl:strip-space elements="*" /> <!-- Find all <Component> elements with <File> elements with Source="" attributes ending in ".exe" and tag it with the "ExeToRemove" key. <Component Id="cmpSYYKP6B1M7WSD5KLEQ7PZW4YLOPYG61L" Directory="INSTALLDIR" Guid="*"> <File Id="filKUS7ZRMJ0AOKDU6ATYY6IRUSR2ECPDFO" KeyPath="yes" Source="!(wix.StagingAreaPath)\ProofOfPEqualsNP.exe" /> </Component> Because WiX's Heat.exe only supports XSLT 1.0 and not XSLT 2.0 we cannot use `ends-with( haystack, needle )` (e.g. `ends-with( wix:File/@Source, '.exe' )`... ...but we can use this longer `substring` expression instead (see https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/5609 ) --> <xsl:key name="ExeToRemove" match="wix:Component[ substring( wix:File/@Source, string-length( wix:File/@Source ) - 3 ) = '.exe' ]" use="@Id" /> <!-- Get the last 4 characters of a string using `substring( s, len(s) - 3 )`, it uses -3 and not -4 because XSLT uses 1-based indexes, not 0-based indexes. --> <!-- We can also remove .pdb files too, for example: --> <xsl:key name="PdbToRemove" match="wix:Component[ substring( wix:File/@Source, string-length( wix:File/@Source ) - 3 ) = '.pdb' ]" use="@Id" /> <!-- By default, copy all elements and nodes into the output... --> <xsl:template match="@*|node()"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" /> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> <!-- ...but if the element has the "ExeToRemove" key then don't render anything (i.e. removing it from the output) --> <xsl:template match="*[ self::wix:Component or self::wix:ComponentRef ][ key( 'ExeToRemove', @Id ) ]" /> <xsl:template match="*[ self::wix:Component or self::wix:ComponentRef ][ key( 'PdbToRemove', @Id ) ]" /> </xsl:stylesheet>