RE: plea for help...

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 16:45 -0600, Walter Torres wrote:
> Well, now that I've sold the idea, I'm stumped on how to do it.
> 
>  1) convert HMTL into well formed HTML (many are not)
>  2) convert well formed HTML into xHTML
>  3) convert xHTML into XML
>  4) create XSLTs to transpose XML back to HTML for page display

Sorry if this has already been suggested, but in the past I have
successfully used:

1. Process the page through a browser (programmatically) and
   retrieving its page representation as text.
   This uses the browser's capabilities of fixing some really
   bad HTML.  In my case I used IE to do this.
2. Process the retrieved HTML through tidy (converting to xHTML)

If your pages as a whole don't have really bad HTML, you may be able
to use tidy alone and be done with it.

In my case, we applied an XSLT file to scrape data from the HTML page.

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Kipp E. Howard
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