[vox-tech] Suggestions for cleaning up repetitive HTML tags?

[Brian Lavender]

Check out ANTLR and perhaps creating a grammar for it and some of
your own production rules.

http://www.antlr.org

I am doing some stuff with ANTLR at the moment parsing fixed field data
results from a mainframe query.

brian

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:48:58AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> 
> I've come across some documents that are formatted in
> such a way that, when converted to HTML, they come out
> something like this:
> 
>   <font face="Arial">And</font> <font face="Arial">then</font>
>   <font face="Arial">they</font> <font face="Arial">looked</font>
> 
> or even worse:
> 
>   <font face="Arial">A</font><font face="Arial">n</font><font
>   face="Arial">d</font>
>   ...
> 
> 
> I've come up with a way, using PHP's DOMDocument system, to
> scrape a file clear of these, but it's very slow, and it's
> basically something that can be done on a stream of text
> (rather than having to worry about the document's structure).
> 
> I'm thinking of writing something in PHP or C to clean stuff
> like this up, but am wondering if anyone else has any experience
> and suggestions?
> 
> (And yes, I've used "htmltidy", but while that can merge _nested_
> styles, e.g., a "<font face="Arial"><font size=+1>" get
> combined into its own CSS stype, e.g., "<span class="c123">",
> it doesn't seem to be able to merge _consecutive_ styles,
> as shown in the examples above. :^/ )
> 
> 
> -- 
> -bill!
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