Question

What is a AttributeRemover?

Answer

AttributeRemover is a Workbench Transformer. It removes the attributes chosen from the feature.

This is sometimes necessary when the feature will later be processed by a transformer that merges attributes onto it from other features. In such a case, if the other features have attributes with the same names as this feature, the attributes must first be removed for the merge to occur.

Another reason to remove attributes is to reduce the amount of data being processed by the translation. This helps to conserve system resources.

The AttributeKeeper offers similar functionality, but instead of selecting the attributes you want to remove, you select the attributes you want to keep.