have an HTML file and I want to extract some content from it, using XSL and XPath Programming.

Following is the code format that is repeated throughout the html file in between tr tags of a table. I want to capture the data marked in bold. [ie., the URL, Event, Priority (High or Low) and the date in each such row of the table.

  <tr valign="top">
    <td class="class1">•</td>
    <td> <a href="link.html"> Event</a><br><b>High</b> (Tue, Nov 8)
   </td>
  </tr>

Following is my XSL code that I am using to simply get the Date and it is not working. Can you point out the mistake?

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
  <xsl:output method="html"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <SellerFeedback>

    <xsl:for-each select="//tr[@valign='top']/td[@class='class1']/td/a/br/small/b/../../../../..">

    <xsl:sort select="/td/td/a/br/small/b/."/>
<Feedback>
     <Date><xsl:value-of select="/td/td/a/br/small/b/."/> </Date>
        </Feedback>
    </xsl:for-each>
    </SellerFeedback>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Regards,
Tarun

select="//tr[@valign='top']/td[@class='class1']/td/a/br/small/b/../../../../..

There are two td elements in this path. I don't believe your source document has a td element that is a child of another td.

Also, don't go all the way down and then up again. Use predicates like

//tr[@valign='top'][td[...]/a/br/small/b]

which will select a tr element that has the relevant tree beneath it.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference