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Subject: suppressing everything but the content of <body> in xhtml output

From: Brett Leber <bleber+@cs.cmu.edu>
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:05:12 -0400

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 <gia@webde-ag.de>
     * To: Fredrik Svensson <fred@ludd.luth.se>
     * 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

Follow-Ups:
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- Re: suppressing everything but the content of <body> in xhtml output
  - From: Brett Leber <bleber+@cs.cmu.edu>