Re: [xsl] matching xhtml tags

[Hank Ratzesberger <hankr@xxxxxxxx>]

On 9/2/11 3:27 PM, deloptes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> nice to meet you.
>
> I'm using often xsl to process xml files, but for first time I'm trying to
> do something with a xhtml file. I probably don't do something right, but my
> xsl is matching only the "/" tag and the tags are stripped only the text
> part is displayed.
>
> I'm using Xalan, but tried also the java version and xsltproc and all behave
> the same. The part below should work, but doesn't.
>
> I would be very thankful for some help
>
> thanks in advance
>
> regards
>
> ...
>
> <xsl:output encoding="UTF-8" method="xml" indent="yes"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>           <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="html">
>          <document>
>                  <title>
>                          <xsl:value-of select="head/title"/>
>                  </title>
>                  <xsl:apply-templates select="body"/>
>          </document>
> </xsl:template>

The processor is falling through (with no specific match) to
the default template, which outputs the text content.

Perhaps what you want to do is

<xsl:copy-of select="body"/>

To "paste in" the body element and its children as is.

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