In regards to jeffas final suggestion here is a utility that will strip out your inline style attributes, put them in an external stylesheet, output a new html file with the style attributes removed and the new css file linked in.

All with HTML::TokeParser::Simple

Some work to beautify the output or make it operate over mulitple files is left as an excercise for the reader 

#!/opt/perl/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::TokeParser::Simple;
use IO::File;


my ( $htmlInfile, $htmlOutfile, $cssOutfile ) = @ARGV;

$htmlOutfile ||= 'out.html';
$cssOutfile ||= 'out.css' ;

my $htmlFile    = new IO::File "> $htmlOutfile" or die "Can't open $ht
+mlOutfile for writing: $!\n";
my $cssFile    = new IO::File "> $cssOutfile"  or die "Can't open $css
+Outfile for writing: $!\n";



my $parser    = HTML::TokeParser::Simple->new($htmlInfile);

my %styles;
while (my $token = $parser->get_token) {

    # link in our new css file
    if ($token->is_end_tag('/head') ){
        $htmlFile->print( "<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href
+='$cssOutfile'>\n" );
    }

    # find and remove inline style definitions 
    if ($token->is_start_tag) {
        my $tag        = $token->return_tag;
        my $attr        = $token->return_attr;
        
        # If we have an inline style attribute get the value
        # then delete it from the tag
        if ( defined $attr->{style} ){
            $styles{ $attr->{style} }{$tag} += 1;
            $token->delete_attr('style');
        }
    }

   
    $htmlFile->print( $token->as_is ); 
}


# print our collected styles into the css file
while (my ( $style, $tags ) = each %styles ){
    #li, p { font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt }
    $cssFile->print( join( ', ', sort keys( %$tags ) ) . " { $style }\
+n");
}

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Clayton

In reply to Extract inline styles to an external style sheet ( was Re: Re: Using a config file in my regexp script.) by clscott
in thread Using a config file in my regexp script. by Tricky

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