ms word vs html ?

Colin Marquardt colin at marquardt-home.de
Mon Oct 7 10:32:49 PDT 2002


"Karsten M. Self" <kmself at ix.netcom.com> writes:

> Went to work on the manager's HTML export.  It blew up both Netscape and
> Mozilla.  Ran the docs through W3C's 'tidy' utility to clean up the
> HMTL.  One document finally validated (after a bunch of hand-edits to
> fix errors).  The other blew up _tidy_ itself.  The HTML was _so_
> nonstandard it blew up the HTML validator.  I ended up rendering the
> document via Lynx and re-tagging it by hand.  In both cases, the tidied
> HTML was ~30% the size of the original MS Word generated document.

Wasn't there a cleaning tool especially for Word-generated HTML
code? Called demoronizer or so... indeed:
   http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/

Cheers,
  Colin

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