In the comments in html2simplehtml.xsl it says: "Although this is supposed to be 'simple' it will also support multiple documents in one file, if the input has them in a 'exsl:document' wrapper."
Now, I can import single-node files perfectly, but I still haven't managed to get several nodes from a file.
My files have the structure:

<div id="main">
    <h1>...</h1>
    <div class="version>
        <h2>...</h2>
        <!--- further contents here -->
    </div>
    <div class="version>
        <h2>...</h2>
        <!--- further contents here -->
    </div>
    etc
</div>

How do I make the class="version" divs go into separate nodes?

(PS: I know this is almost a duplicate of my previous post. In the meantime I've been reading up on xsl and know a lot more about what is going on, and I've got the demo to work, with the latest dev version, and tried every constellation I could think of, but still no multiple nodes. Hence this almost-re-post.)

I'm guessing I'm not supposed to put ... tags into the html source file itself? I've tried to

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dman commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

You'll need to manipulate your inputs such that you can get something that looks more like

<div id="root"><!-- XML needs a single root element -->

<exsl:document><!-- an exsl:document represents what would normally be an individual file -->
 <html><!-- inside any normal file would be expected a normal HTML Structure -->  
  <body>
    <h1>...</h1>
    <div class="version>
        <h2>...</h2>
        <!--- further contents here -->
    </div>
  </body>
 </html>
</exsl:document>

<!-- so if we had another HTML document, it would look like this -->
<exsl:document>
 <html>
  <body>
    <div class="version>
        <h2>...</h2>
        <!--- further contents here -->
    </div>
  </body>
  </html>
</exsl:document>
</div>

What this means is you can get one file input to create multi node output.
It WILL take a significant amount of XSL wrangling to get there though.

the multi-examples haven't got a lot of love in the last few versions, as they didn't get a lot of use. So there may be things that have stopped working during the upgrades.