strip-all-but-tags.xsl

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- this is a simple transformation for stripping out all except element nodes
  by Stéfan Sinclair, no license (use and abuse as you wish, no reponsibility here) -->
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
    <xsl:template match="*">
        <xsl:element name="{name()}">
            <xsl:apply-templates/>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="text()" />
</xsl:stylesheet>