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At 15:20 21-09-2000 +0100, Dylan Walsh wrote: >Hi. I am working on preparing examples of HTML, created by professional web >designers, for use with XSL transformations. Obviously the markup needs to >be made well-formed for this purpose. I am familiar with Tidy from the W3C, >however that utility goes beyond what we need, as it makes changes to >conform to their standards. This unfortunately results in visual anomalies >in the output. > >I understand the arguements behind XHTML etc., however the markup we are >given is designed to work look good with older browsers, on different >platforms. Is there any software out there that converts HTML to be >well-formed XML, but does not make changes beyond that, e.g. to obey the >HTML or XHTML standards? Is the HTML valid SGML (i.e., complies with one of the HTML DTDs)? If so, you can use James Clark's sx (<URL:http://www.jclark.com/sp/>), which will do a straight SGML-to-XML translation with no knowledge of HTML's semantics. If the HTML is tag soup, then you may be SOL; try Perl with the HTML::Parser module, or something. -Chris -- Christopher R. Maden, Senior XML Analyst, Lexica LLC 222 Kearny St., Ste. 202, San Francisco, CA 94108-4510 +1.415.901.3631 tel./+1.415.477.3619 fax <URL:http://www.lexica.net/> <URL:http://www.oreilly.com/%7Ecrism/>
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