I needed a little script to translate my HTML code to XHTML compliant.
I wrote this little script to do it for me, but it doesn't do everything I wanted it to - yet. At the moment, it just speeds up the process a bit. Could someone give me pointers to how I could implement the last few features? 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
while(<>) {
        s/<(\S*)(.*)>/<\L$1\E$2>/g;
        s/<\/(\S*)>/<\/\L$1\E>/g;
        # s/(\w+)=([^\s\"]*)/$1=\"$2\"/g; # XHTML enforces quotes arou
+nd parameter values. (needs fixing)
        # XHTML enforces closing slashes, i.e. <br/> or <td></td>
        print;
}

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Re: HTML to xHTML
by mirod (Canon) on Sep 04, 2001 at 16:35 UTC

    Once again... ;--( Please do not use regexps to process HTML or XML. There is more to it than what you think.

    So use modules like HTML::Parser or tools like tidy. Believe me it will save you a _lot_ of trouble. I think you have better things to do with your time than to write a proper parser! (if you don't then please read the specs... and reconsider your decision ;--)

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Re: HTML to xHTML
by Hofmator (Curate) on Sep 04, 2001 at 16:30 UTC

    You might consider a proper way of doing it ... regexes get just more complicated and still don't get everything right in this case. mirod had a very recent post about this topic: Re: HTML and XML.

    -- Hofmator

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      Ohh, cool. I never tought of checking weather tidy could do it. Thanks.
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