[duxuser] Re: importing html documents in to dux bury
- From: "ers" <jmtsanders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 05:20:05 -0400
Hi, I've downloaded the tidy .zip file but, I don't know how to do command
lines. What should I do?
Sincerely
John Sanders
----- Original Message -----
From: <David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 4:14 AM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: importing html documents in to dux bury
> 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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