Recommend a utility to clean up msOffice HTML, but leave certain basic formatting?

Hi

Can anyone recommend a really powerful utility to strip out Microsoft
Word (2003) garbage from HTML?

I need to keep the basics of formatting i.e.
- Bolds
- Italics
- Bullets

Plus I need to keep the very basic table tags
<TABLE>, <TR>, <TD>
so that I can keep the essential table structure.

But I need EVERYTHING ELSE to get stripped out.
I dont want any classes of any sort, no fonts and no weird Micro$oft
stuff.

I also want to be able to specify certain character string that I want
to get
either converted or stripped out entirely.
e.g. remove "&nbsp;" completely,
remove "<p></p>" completely
change weird opening inverted commas into basic ASCII character: '


I have searched high and low for such a utility!

The only thing that comes close so far is DETAGGER (from jafsoft.com).
But it's very clunky and wont let me so multiple different
replacements
at the touch of a single click!

Any (low cost/free) suggestions?

With thanks


Ship
Shiperton Henethe

ship wrote:

Hi

Can anyone recommend a really powerful utility to strip out Microsoft
Word (2003) garbage from HTML?
Sorry I can't help you with that.

But why are you using Word to make webpages?
There are a lot of html-editors like:
HTML editors for free:
jedit : http://www.jedit.org/
nedit : http://www.nedit.org/
ewisoft : http://www.ewisoft.com/
netpadd : http://www.netpadd.com/
araneae : http://www.ornj.net/software/araneae/
1st page : http://www.evrsoft.com/
crimson : http://crimsoneditor.com/
ezpad : http://www.mmedia.is/ezpad/
acehtml :
http://software.visicommedia.com/en/...ehtmlfreeware/
notetab light : http://www.notetab.com/
html-kit : http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
context : http://www.fixedsys.com/context/
pspad : http://www.pspad.com/en/index.html
websmill : http://www.xtreeme.com/websmill/
metapad : http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
quanta (linux) : http://freeware.acehtml.com/
tswebeditor : http://tswebeditor.net.tc/
notespad : http://www.newbie.net/NotesPad/index.html
grey matter pro : http://www.pagetutor.com/misc/grey.html
editpad lite : http://www.editpadlite.com/editpadlite.html
stones webwrite : http://www.webwriter.dk/english/index.htm
matizha sublime :
http://www.dohnews.com/index.php?mod...&ceid=3&meid=4

nvu : http://www.nvu.com/
SciTE : http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/SciTE.html
Notepad++ : http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
CSE HTML Validator : http://www.htmlvaildator.com/lite/
Through the web editor : http://koivi.com/WYSIWYG-Editor/
Xinha : http://xinha.python-hosting.com/
FCK editor : http://www.fckeditor.net/
vim : http://www.vim.org/download.php

HMTL editors not for free:
textpad : http://www.textpad.com/
notetab : http://www.notetab.com/
editplus : http://www.editplus.com/
ultraedit : http://www.idmcomp.com/
editpad : http://www.editpadpro.com/
hypertext studio : http://www.olsonsoft.com/
namo : http://www.namo.com/products/webeditor/
acehtml pro : http://www.visicommedia.com/acehtml/
ibm websphere : http://www-3.ibm.com/software/webservers/hpbuilder/
spider writer : http://www.actiprosoftware.com/Products/SpiderWriter/
Zues : http://www.zeusedit.com/
CSE HTML Validator pro : http://www.html.validator.com/

PHP editors for free
phpedit : http://phpedit.org/
Winsyntax : http://www.dirfile.com/arisesoft_winsyntax.htm
devphp : http://devphp.sourceforge.net/
phpcoder : http://www.phpide.com/programs.php
Davor's PHP Editor : http://www.pleskina.com/dphped/main.php
php designer : http://www.mpsoftware.dk/

PHP editor not for free:
phped : http://www.nusphere.com/products/
top php studio : http://www.top-systems.net/
dzsoft php editor : http://www.dzsoft.com/dzphp.htm
Expert Editor : http://www.ankord.com/phpxedit.html
komodo : http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/
maguma studio/workbench : http://www.maguma.com/

PHP editor comming soon:
HydraPHP : http://www.coldmind.com/

XML editor for free:
xmlpro2 : http://www.vervet.com/
cooktop : http://www.xmlcooktop.com/
xray : http://architag.com/xray/
peters xml eiditor : http://www.iol.ie/~pxe/
morphon : http://www.morphon.com/xmleditor/index.shtml

XML editor not for free:
xopus : http://xopus.com/
editml : http://www.editml.com/
xmlwriter : http://www.xmlwriter.net/
oxygen pro : http://www.oxygenxml.com/
blueprint : http://www.xmlblueprint.com/
xmlspy : http://www.xmlspy.com/products_ide.html
turboxml : http://www.tibco.com/software/busine...n/turboxml.jsp

XML editor for free and not free
xmlmind : http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/
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On 04/14/2007 07:44 AM, ship wrote:

Hi

Can anyone recommend a really powerful utility to strip out Microsoft
Word (2003) garbage from HTML?
[...]

At one time I had to use HTML Tidy¹ to strip out MS extraneous tags and
attributes; however, nowadays I'd use Perl along with HTML::Parser.

-------------------
¹ http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/

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On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:44:34 +0200
Edwin van der Vaart <e.vandervaart (AT) want (DOT) nospam.com> wrote:

[...]

HTML editors for free:

[...]

http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/ quanta
(linux)

[...]

Hi Edwin,

Great list!! I suspect that you have this filed somewhere so I hope
you don't mind if I suggest another 2 great free Linux HTML editors
to add to your list:

Bluefish: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/
Screem: http://www.screem.org/

Quanta I am not sure about. Do you mean Quanta Plus which is found
at: http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/?

I am a huge fan of BlueFish which has the competitive twin-brother
Screem :-) I have not tried Quanta Plus as it is meant for KDE
Desktop.

All the best,

Andrew

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andrew wrote:

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:44:34 +0200
Edwin van der Vaart <e.vandervaart (AT) want (DOT) nospam.com> wrote:

[...]

HTML editors for free:

[...]
http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/ quanta
(linux)

[...]

Hi Edwin,

Great list!! I suspect that you have this filed somewhere so I hope
you don't mind if I suggest another 2 great free Linux HTML editors
to add to your list:

Bluefish: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/
Screem: http://www.screem.org/
Just added to the editor list.

Quanta I am not sure about. Do you mean Quanta Plus which is found
at: http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/?
The link to quanta is changed. At first it was quanta, but quanta plus

will do.
Thank you for pointing the broken/changed link.

I am a huge fan of BlueFish which has the competitive twin-brother
Screem :-) I have not tried Quanta Plus as it is meant for KDE
Desktop.
When I make a webpage, I use notepad (windows), vi (linux) or joe (linux).

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ship wrote:

Hi

Can anyone recommend a really powerful utility to strip out Microsoft
Word (2003) garbage from HTML?

I need to keep the basics of formatting i.e.
- Bolds
- Italics
- Bullets

Plus I need to keep the very basic table tags
TABLE>, <TR>, <TD
so that I can keep the essential table structure.

But I need EVERYTHING ELSE to get stripped out.
I dont want any classes of any sort, no fonts and no weird Micro$oft
stuff.

I also want to be able to specify certain character string that I want
to get
either converted or stripped out entirely.
e.g. remove "&nbsp;" completely,
remove "<p></p>" completely
change weird opening inverted commas into basic ASCII character: '

Just copying the text from Word, opening NVU and selecting "paste
without formatting"(or something like that) has worked well for me when
faced with this problem.

Other than that, 10 minutes of search and replace with notepad can
usually clean up your code pretty good - just leave the "replace with"
box blank!

"ship" <shiphen (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

Hi

Can anyone recommend a really powerful utility to strip out Microsoft
Word (2003) garbage from HTML?

I need to keep the basics of formatting i.e.
- Bolds
- Italics
- Bullets

Plus I need to keep the very basic table tags
TABLE>, <TR>, <TD
so that I can keep the essential table structure.

But I need EVERYTHING ELSE to get stripped out.
I dont want any classes of any sort, no fonts and no weird Micro$oft
stuff.

I also want to be able to specify certain character string that I want
to get
either converted or stripped out entirely.
e.g. remove "&nbsp;" completely,
remove "<p></p>" completely
change weird opening inverted commas into basic ASCII character: '


I have searched high and low for such a utility!

The only thing that comes close so far is DETAGGER (from jafsoft.com).
But it's very clunky and wont let me so multiple different
replacements
at the touch of a single click!

Any (low cost/free) suggestions?

With thanks


Ship
Shiperton Henethe

I've used:

Doc Scrubber v1.1
http://www.docscrubber.com/download.html

Doc Scrubber is provided as freeware for personal and educational use.

This doesn't do a perfect job, but it does cut out a lot of the "dead wood"
and the price is right...