deep "copy-of" a source fragment

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Subject: deep "copy-of" a source fragment
From: Terence Kearns <terencek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 16:48:01 +1000

Hi everyone, I just joined this list so "greetings". I joined because even after reading the entire http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N1930.html page on copying, and reading the reference on xsl:copy and xsl:copy-of I am still vexed by an annoying problem. I'm using XALAN through the ColdFusion MX implementation of their xmlTransform() function. I'm not sure exactly which version of Xalan that is.

I'm trying to deep copy [the _content_ of] an xhtml body element. I have users who enter arbitary HTML which I then pass through HTML TIDY which produces a nice well-formed XHTML document for me. I want to extract the body and store the content only.

With my existing attempts, I either get a concatenated string of all the leaf text-nodes, or I get the whole entire file.

Here's what's stange, if I do a

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:copy-of select="node()"/>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

I get the entire source tree copied to result tree.

*This is to be expectd*

but if I change

match="/"

to

match="/html/body"

then I get leaf nodes again :(
I also tried

match="/html/body/"
match="/html/body/*"
match="/html/body/@*|node()"
match="/html/body/node()"

no dice... I either get leaf text nodes or the whole entire file.

makes no difference if I change

select="node()"

to

select="."

or

select="@*|node()"

Is there no way at all to copy a fragment from the source tree onto the result tree?!

I've also tried a boatload of other things... too many to list...

I know I can do this using a regular expression instead, but that's not the point, I _should_ be able to do it easily with XSLT.

XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list

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deep "copy-of" a source fragment Terence Kearns - Wed, 4 Sep 2002 02:46:33 -0400 (EDT) <= Peter Davis - Wed, 4 Sep 2002 03:05:19 -0400 (EDT) Terence Kearns - Thu, 5 Sep 2002 01:50:15 -0400 (EDT) Message not available Peter Davis - Thu, 5 Sep 2002 02:58:10 -0400 (EDT) Conal Tuohy - Wed, 4 Sep 2002 03:26:08 -0400 (EDT)

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