Select specific tags in html using XSLT

[sripadraj kudur]

Hello all ,

I have been trying to parse the html and get/extract few tags from the html using xslt. My XSLT is as given below:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> <xsl:template match="node()|@*"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="a"><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:template> <xsl:template match="img"/> </xsl:stylesheet>


I need only few tags, like '<a>' and <img> in the above XSLT but the code outputs the entire html.
Can anybody point out what could have gone wrong. A sample code would be helpful.


Thank you
Sripad

[Paul Clapham]

Well, yes, what you have there is basically the identity transformation, so naturally what you get as a result is basically the entire document. That's what the identity transformation does, it just copies the entire document.

So, if your desired output isn't a slightly-modified version of the entire document, then don't start with the identity transformation as the basis for your XSLT code.