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On 8/31/07, Lou Iorio <lou@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. xhtml is in the namespace "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" so you'll need to modify your stylesheet to match elements in that namespace eg: <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns="xhtml:"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" version="1.0"> <xsl:template match="/"> <verse> <xsl:value-of select="xhtml:html/xhtml:body/xhtml:div/blah"/> </verse> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Note the namespace declaration on the xsl:stylesheet element and the modified xpath. In XSLT 2.0 there's the xpath-default-namespace which is probably better than bloating your XPaths with the prefix. -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/
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