I have a xhtml document containing 4000 nested tables upto 7 layers deep. All it shows is a nested directory structure. What is a good module to simplfy this. I want to convert it to XML document in the form

<root>
<node>
<name></name>
<node>
<name></name>
</node>
</node>
</root>

I think that using tokeparser to step though the document, testing the tokens will work,and writing xml to a seperate file depending on the results will work or is there a better way?

I've looked at using XSLT to do the transform but either Im missing something or it doesnt cope well with nested structures.

In reply to Converting very nested XHTML to XML by richill

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