[duxuser] Re: importing html documents in to dux bury
- From: David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:14:32 +0100
George said:
No, I mean what program created it? NotePad, Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Word
or what? Some HTML is manually written (in things like NotePad) and does
not therefore always contain proper HTML, even though it may display OK in
I.E. and such like.
Dave responds.
A guy from W3C wrote a program to tidy up improper html, to make it
easier to read, more accessible etc.
Its called tidy, runs on windows,
has web page http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/ .
Its a dos command, needs to be run from the command prompt.
tidy -help produces a help file.
Basic command is tidy -m file.html
which cleans up the file.
tidy options file tells tidy what options to use.
Various options, the ones I use most are,
clean=yes, which removes all presentational tags.
drop-empty-paras=yes, causes empty paragraphs to be removed.
enclose-text=yes, causes all content to be put in paragraph tags,
which helps importing.
write-back=yes, causes the original file to be changed, and
is a configuration file alternative to the -m command line option.
Options can be saved into a text file, and used regularly,
so you don't have to remember them. Say you save them into
tidy.cfg, then call tidy up using,
tidy -config tidy.cfg file.html, where file.html is the file to be
cleaned up.
HTH DaveP.
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