convert xhtml back to html

[Tim Arnold]

"bryan rasmussen" <rasmussen.bryan at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.138.1209061180.12834.python-list at python.org...
> I'll second the recommendation to use xsl-t, set the output to html.
>
>
> The code for an XSL-T to do it would be basically:
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
> version="1.0">
> <xsl:output method="html" />
>    <xsl:template match="/"><xsl:copy-of select="/"/></xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> you would probably want to do other stuff than just  copy it out but
> that's another case.
>
> Also, from my recollection the solution in CHM to make XHTML br
> elements behave correctly was <br /> as opposed to <br/>, at any rate
> I've done projects generating CHM and my output markup was well formed
> XML at all occasions.
>
> Cheers,
> Bryan Rasmussen

Thanks Bryan, Walter, John, Marc, and Stefan. I finally went with the xslt 
transform which works very well and is simple.  regexps would work, but they 
just scare me somehow. Brian, my tags were formatted as <br /> but the help 
compiler would issue warnings on each one resulting in log files with 
thousands of warnings. It did finish the compile though, but it made 
understanding the logs too painful.

Stefan, I *really* look forward to being able to use lxml when I move to RH 
linux next month. I've been using hp10.20 and never could get the requisite 
libraries to compile. Once I make that move, maybe I won't have as many 
markup related questions here!

thanks again to all for the great suggestions.
--Tim Arnold