I happened to have something floating around that was close to what you asked for, so I modified it and include it here. It doesn't normalize the space:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";> <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="no"/> <!-- Kill these in the output tree --> <xsl:template match="a"> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="/"> <htmltext> <xsl:apply-templates /> </htmltext> </xsl:template> <!-- For all other node types, just copy the node and it's content. --> <xsl:template match="*|processing-instruction()|comment()"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="not(node())"><xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/><xsl:text> </xsl:text></xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/><xsl:text> </xsl:text> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template> <!-- For all other attributes, copy the attribute. --> <xsl:template match="@*"> <xsl:apply-templates /><xsl:text> </xsl:text> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> HTH, ________________________________ From: Peter Hollas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 3:50 AM To: xalan-j-users@xml.apache.org Subject: XHTML link tag stripping Hi everyone, Please could someone provide an example stylesheet of how to strip <a> link tags out of a source XHTML document whilst retaining the remaining node text from within the body. Preferably the output should have normalised whitespace and a space seperating each extracted piece of text. eg. Source: <html> <head> <title>Not wanted</title> </head> <body> <a>Not wanted</a> <div class="1">This text is wanted <a href="#">Not wanted</a> and so is this</div> <p>Wanted</p> </body> </html> Output: <htmltext>This text is wanted and so is this Wanted</htmltext> I'm sure that the solution is incredibly simple, but after days of trying I keep hitting a brick wall. Many thanks, Peter.
