Re: Converting Word97 (or later) exported HTML to valid HTML

[andye]

You're so right - it's really quite horrendous. I've used two solutions for this in the past (neither Perl though, sorry) :

• Microsoft themselves have released a utility to do this - presumably available from their website
• Macromedia Dreamweaver has a specific function to do this

The second of these obviously can't be incorporated in a script, the first probably can't, but perhaps you could persuade your users to run their html files through the Microsoft utility, on their Windows desktop?

hth a little,
andy.

[impossiblerobot]

I've found a Word filter from Microsoft that is supposed to output cleaner HTML. (I assume this is what you were talking about.)

I also tend to use Dreamweaver for this task, but it does leave some of the CSS stuff behind, so some cleanup is still required.

Update: Although I still haven't tested the output, it appears that the MS Word filter can be used from the command line, as a standalone GUI application, or from within Word, and can batch process multiple files.


Impossible Robot