XSLT of an HTML data

NEO1976 · July 5th, 2006, 07:17 AM

Hallo,

I have just received an HTML file and my duty is to transform it to another HTML format site via XSLT. So till now I have used the XSL structure for XML datas and I am now a bit confused. Could someone show me the way how should I begin to write this XSL structure for an HTML data?

Your attitude determines your altitude

mhkay · July 5th, 2006, 07:30 AM

Convert the HTML to well-formed XML using the Tidy or JTidy utility (http://jtidy.sourceforge.net/), then proceed as for transforming XML.

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

NEO1976 · July 5th, 2006, 07:35 AM

Thanks Michael for that tip I have another question. This HTML file is gonna be updated in every hour. So would it still be feasible for me to use jtidy? I mean this HTML pager is going to be obtained from a commercial provider automatically.

Your attitude determines your altitude

mhkay · July 5th, 2006, 08:28 AM

If you're going to do it that frequently then it probably makes sense to look at the process that creates/updates the HTML in the first place. Why not make it well-formed XHTML, then you can process it directly. Even better, make it XML tagged with logical markup rather than presentation markup.

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