Question

I want to extract part of the html using the xsl :

<td>    
    <div>    
        <table>    
        <tbody>      
            <tr><td></td><td></td></tr>     
        </tbody>
        <tfoot>   
            <tr>   
                <td></td>    
                <td class="comment-form"><form id="add-comment-586631"></form></td>    
            </tr>    
        </tfoot>   
        </table>   
    </div>   
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</td>

I want to produce this (anything inside div) :

<table>    
            <tbody>      
                <tr><td></td><td></td></tr>     
            </tbody>
            <tfoot>   
                <tr>   
                    <td></td>    
                    <td class="comment-form"><form id="add-comment-586631"></form></td>    
                </tr>    
            </tfoot>   
            </table>

I’ve tried several permutations with this example but couldn’t work it :

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:x="http://india.com/states">
    <xsl:strip-space elements="*" />
    <xsl:output indent="yes" method="html" />
    <xsl:template match="//div/node()">
            <xsl:copy-of select="*" />
            <xsl:apply-templates />
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Could someone point out what I’m missing here. thanks

Answer 1

If you just want to copy the descendants of the div elements (without further processing), the following should work:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
   <xsl:strip-space elements="*" />
   <xsl:output indent="yes" method="html" />

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

   <xsl:template match="text()"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>