RE: [xsl] extracting content from html

["Aron Bock" <aronbock@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron, from my brief sojourn on this ng, it seems its participants act 
somewhat like the editors of the "weddings" section of the Sunday NY Times: 
oftentimes weddings that you'd be *sure* would make the section, don't, 
while obscure ones do.  Likewise, sometimes people post what they assume are 
clear, descriptive questions and are summarily asked to elaborate, while 
others post what barely qualifies as a half-formulated question and get a 
torrent of responses, some even with generously made-up data :-)

I believe Heisenberg (he of the uncertainty principle) pushed through a 2 
page thesis for his doctorate.  The rest of us may need to be more 
expansive.

Thus, on the whole, it's inadvisable to rely on the vagaries of the 
collective ng consciousness, but rather, to provide sample input and sample 
wanted output.  You'll then likely get much help from the many 
knowledgeable, helpful participants here.

Regards,

--A

> From: Aaron Johnson <Aaron2.Johnson@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: [xsl] extracting content from html
> Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 15:20:04 +0100
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>
> Hello...
>
> I have an html document that I want to do jobs.
>
> Firstly...
>
> I'd like it to be a stand alone document that people can browse to.
>
> Secondly...
>
> I'd like to extract content from the document to populate a page in a
> portal using xslt.
>
> Being xhtml, the document counts as well formed xml so it should in
> theory be possible...
>
> ...I have no idea where to start!
>
> Can anyone make any suggestions please?
>
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