Re: Selective escaping of special characters

[Kyrre Wathne]

> My apologies if this question has been asked before, I haven't found posts
> that address this exact issue.
>
> My problem is that I want to transform junk HTML generated by Microsoft
> Word. This contains markup, of course, so my first instinct was to use
> disable-output-escaping. However, this also disables escaping of other
> special characters, like the special dash character –. These are
then
> outputted in a format my browser (Internet Explorer) doesn't understand (I
> use "ISO-8859-1" as encoding in output).
>

Not exactly what you asked for, but HTML-Tidy has a setting that causes it
to remove all the Microsoft junk from Word2000 output.  There are java and C
versions, with various wrappers including Python.  One fast preprocessing
pass with Tidy will do a really nice job of getting rid of all that noise,
much easier than trying to get a stylesheet working.

Cheers,

Tom P


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