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From: jkraai at polytopic.com (jkraai)
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 05:07:01 GMT
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Subject: HTML "sanitizer" in Python
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References: <s72703fc.021@holnam.com> <19990428152042.A708@better.net> <00e501be91c4$db944f20$0301a8c0@cbd.net.au>
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Message-ID: <3727E8F5.7AC7EAB0@polytopic.com>
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X-UID: 74
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Um, a vote of confidence here for tidy.
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I've rewritten tidy to do several different specialized things.
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I am no C hacker, and have been told it's 'awful' code, but I
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sure had no problems with it.
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,
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just-another-2c-in-the-bucket-ly-yours
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--jim
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Mark Nottingham wrote:
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> There's a better (albeit non-Python) way.
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> Check out http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
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> Tidy will do wonderful things in terms of making HTML compliant with the
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> spec (closing tags, cleaning up the crud that Word makes, etc.) As a big
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> bonus, it will remove all <FONT> tags, etc, and replace them with CSS1 style
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> sheets. Wow.
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> It's C, and is also available with a windows GUI (HTML-Kit) that makes a
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> pretty good HTML editor as well. On Unix, it's a command line utility, so
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> you can use it (clumsily) from a Python program.
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> I suppose an extension could also be written; will look into this (or if
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> anyone does it, please tell me!)
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