Brett,
I needed to do the same thing, but I cheated and used tidy
with the following configuration file:
show-body-only: yes
output-xhtml: yes
You can also merge <divs> and clean up other artifacts
pretty easily.
I'm sure there's a way to do this in the transform, but if
you need a quick fix, tidy works pretty well. If you're not
familiar with tidy, check out tidy.sourceforge.net.
Dick Hamilton
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett Leber [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 1:05 PM
> To:
> Subject: [docbook-apps] suppressing everything but the
> content of <body> in xhtml output
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to output only the content of the xhtml document's
> <body> (ie,
> no <html>, <head>, or <body> tags). I found an old post that
> seemed to
> be what I needed, but the XSL customization didn't work for
> me (granted,
> it's 5 years old):
>
> Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Removing <html>,<head> & <body>
> * From: Gisbert Amm <>
> * To: Fredrik Svensson <>
> * Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 10:21:26 +0200
>
> > Currently the HTML head stuff is output by
> > this template in html/docbook.xsl:
> >
> > <xsl:template match="*" mode="process.root">
> >
> > If you only want to modify this for articles,
> > you could add a template in mode "process.root"
> > to your html customization layer:
>
> > <xsl:template match="article" mode="process.root">
> > <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
> > </xsl:template>
>
> > Then it will not output the <head><body> stuff, but
> > it will process everything in the document
> > as html.
>
> I'm using the DocBook 5 stylesheets, and xhtml/docbook.xsl. Any hints?
>
> thanks,
>
> Brett
>
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