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Re: html to xml
* Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> [Oct 27. 2000 12:58]:
> Lisa van Gelder writes:
> > The basic problem is that the html you are getting is not structured enough
> > for your purposes.
> >
> > I had the same problem, and solved it by setting rules for how the html
> > could be structured, so it could be converted into xml more easily. I do not
> > allow any text that is not surrounded by tags.
>
> I was afraid someone would say that. My problem is that the task is to
> convert our existing web pages (6196 documents, at last count) to (TEI DTD)
> XML. So I have no control over the original coding. So the conclusion
> is, I guess, "clean up the HTML minimally even before running tidy".
Could you introduce an XSLT step that said that all
text()-nodes with a h1..h6 tag as their immediate parent, should be
enclosed in <p>-tags?
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