[xsl] html as input to xslt

[Lou Iorio <lou@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is probably a naive question, but I could not find it in the archives.

Can I transform xhtml documents using xsl, or does this just not make sense?

I'm trying to replace a tag with a specified attribute to another tag.

The only xpath that does anything is *, which dumps the text of the html.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
version="1.0">
 <xsl:template match="/">
   <verse>
   <xsl:value-of select="*"/>
   </verse>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I'm using xsltproc and saxon8, both of which do the same thing.