Brent,
if you want to process the nodeset enclosed in the <bis> element, you could
just try this:
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:element name="page">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="bis">
<xsl:element name="biselement">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
But this is plain XSLT matching, nothing to do with XPATH.
BTW, I've noticed your HTML is NOT XML-compliant, which will cause problems
to XSLT: mind !
Best regards,
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Luca Morandini
GIS Consultant
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brent Eades [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 8:15 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Greetings, and question
>
>
> Hello all, just getting up to speed on Cocoon, and finding it all
> quite fascinating. No doubt I'll have many more questions in the
> coming months.
>
> Anyway, today's question is on xpath. I'm trying to customize the
> HTML Generator 'scraper' example to extract bits from a given HTML
> page. Now, I have rudimentary knowledge of xpath syntax, but not
> enough I guess because I'm stuck.
>
> Here's a sample of the HTML to be scraped:
>
> -----------
> <table width="100%" border="0">
> <bis t="pr" f="p020326.htm">
> <tr>
> <td nowrap align="right" valign="top">
> 26 Mar 2002
> </td>
> <td valign="top">
> Financial Stability Forum holds its seventh meeting
> (<a href="p020326.htm">Read</a>)
> </td>
> </tr>
> </bis>
>
> <bis t="pr" f="p020318.htm">
> <tr>
> <td nowrap align="right" valign="top">
> [snip]
> </td>
> </tr>
> </bis>
>
> Etc.
> ----------
>
> The <bis...> stuff is used by another, non-XML process, but it seemed
> to me it should be a no-brainer to write an xpath argument that would
> pull out between the <bis> </bis> and transform them.
>
> However, it isn't. Can anyone point me in the right general direction
> here?
>
> -----------------------------
> Brent Eades, Almonte, Ontario
> http://www.almonte.com
> http://www.bankofcanada.ca
>
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