From: SSTirlin at holnam.com (Scott Stirling)
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:26:18 -0400
Subject: HTML "sanitizer" in Python
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Thanks, Mark!  That is a very cool tool.  It will make a nice HTML editor for me here at work.

The only feature I immediately saw lacking (but maybe I missed it--I just downloaded it this AM) is the ability to record macros.  For my Excel problem, I really need the ability to batch process the HTML files because there are 14 of them.

Anyway, this is a great reference.  Thank you again.

Scott
>>> "Mark Nottingham" <mnot at pobox.com> 04/28 6:17 PM >>>
There's a better (albeit non-Python) way.

Check out http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/ 

Tidy will do wonderful things in terms of making HTML compliant with the
spec (closing tags, cleaning up the crud that Word makes, etc.) As a big
bonus, it will remove all <FONT> tags, etc, and replace them with CSS1 style
sheets. Wow.

It's C, and is also available with a windows GUI (HTML-Kit) that makes a
pretty good HTML editor as well. On Unix, it's a command line utility, so
you can use it (clumsily) from a Python program.

I suppose an extension could also be written; will look into this (or if
anyone does it, please tell me!)

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|  Scott M. Stirling                                                                                                                        |
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|  Keane - Holnam Year 2000 Project                                                                                   |
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