extracting HTML elements from document created by sax

Hi All,

I'm suing the following template to extract all the html tags  that is not <a> in to the xsl output.

 <xsl:variable name="htmlContent" select="saxon:parse(concat('&lt;!DOCTYPE tag [&lt;!ENTITY nbsp ''&#160;''&gt;]&gt;',concat(concat('&lt;tag&gt;',text()),'&lt;/tag&gt;')))"/>
  <xsl:apply-templates select="$htmlContent"  />


    <xsl:template match="tag/*[name() != 'a']" >
        <xsl:element name="{name()}">
        <xsl:copy-of select="@*|text()|node()"/>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>

But it is not properly extracting tags such as <br/> and only outputs <br>
Is there a way to fix this?

Also is there a way to get around the parser complaints of &nbsp; not declared exception?


Thanks,
Dharshana