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Best Word HTML Cleaner?

  • 17-01-2006 5:56pm
    #1
    Mr E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,529 ✭✭✭✭


    Everyone knows that Microsoft Word produces junk HTML if you save a doc as HTML (usually tripling the size of the file in the process).

    What do people recommend for stripping the junk out of it?

    I googled, and there are lots of suggestions, but I want to know what you use.

    BTW, ideally the solution would be free... (I use dreamweaver myself, but the person who needs it doesn't have access to DW)


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Would be better to not garbage it up first.

    OpenOffice does some HTML, I haven't tried publishing a word document with it but it can't be worse.

    EDIT - Picked first doc google found on Microsoft.COM
    saved as HTML by OO
    http://research.microsoft.com/users/marycz/el.doc


  • #3
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    I haven't tested but I would imagine HTML Tidy (OSS) would do a very good job..


  • #4
    thetourist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 469 ✭✭thetourist


    my html kit ( which is an awsome - and free- program in the first place ) has in the actions-> tools menu "strip surplus tags from word 2000 pages" -- my version is 5.1 - i have used it in the past and as far as i can remember it works ok

    http://www.chami.com/html-kit/


  • #5
    thetourist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 469 ✭✭thetourist


    Capt'n Midnight wrote:
    Would be better to not garbage it up first.

    OpenOffice does some HTML, I haven't tried publishing a word document with it but it can't be worse.

    EDIT - Picked first doc google found on Microsoft.COM
    saved as HTML by OO
    http://research.microsoft.com/users/marycz/el.doc

    very interesting

    had a look at the source - there's no where near the ammount of crap ms spits out


  • #6
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    Don't forget http://validator.w3.org

    Lovely for cleaning up your HTML.


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