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    <p>I have to parse a big HTML file, and Im only interested in a small section (a table). So I thought about using an XSLT to simplify/transform the HTML in something simpler that I could then easily process.</p> <p>The problem Im having is that the is not finding my table. So I don't know if its even possible to parse HTML using a XSL stylesheet.</p> <p>By the way, the HTML file has this look (schematic, missing tags):</p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; &lt;html id="ctl00_htmlDocumento" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="es-ES" xml:lang="es-ES"&gt; &lt;div&gt; some content &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="NON_IMPORTANT"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="IMPORTANT_FATHER&gt; &lt;div class="IMPORTANT"&gt; &lt;table&gt; HERE IS THE DATA IM LOOKING FOR &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>as per request, here is my xsl</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"&gt; &lt;xsl:template match="tbody"&gt; tbody found, lets process it &lt;xsl:for-each select="tr"&gt; new tf found, lets process it &lt;/xsl:for-each&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; &lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt; </code></pre> <p>The full HTML is quite big so I dont know how to present it here... I've tested for valid document on Oxygen, and it says its valid.</p> <p>Thanks in advance. Gonso</p>
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    1. COXSLT is used to perform transformations on the input document and not parsing. Also without showing your HTML and XSLT documents you can't expect to get a helpful answer.
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    2. COYou might want to show how you are trying to use the stylesheet and a snippet of the stylesheet that is failing.
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    3. COYou can do this, but I think you will have trouble. You should use a html parser in your language that supports sloppy html.
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