One project I undertook, (and found interesting) in this area, was a script using LWP which rendered my friends' blogs in a Palm-compatible format.

It was rather clunky, but essentially it hit on their websites and got their blog front pages, then used regexes to reduce the complexity of the HTML, removing tables and so on, re-writing their blogs into pages on my website.

Of course there are Palm browsers (I use AvantGo) which will attempt to reformat and render HTML for you, but I found it easier to run the reformatting script, getting any error messages along the way, just before a sync. And of course I could tweak the reformatting by adjusting a list of allowed and disallowed tags.
--

“Every bit of code is either naturally related to the problem at hand, or else it's an accidental side effect of the fact that you happened to solve the problem using a digital computer.”
M-J D

In reply to Re: "Web Automation" -- your input is greatly desired! by Cody Pendant
in thread "Web Automation" -- your input is greatly desired! by Dice

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.