Re: Publish or Polish

Semi-OT: word generated .html is, in a word, "YUCKY!" ...and, increasingly so, per version. 97 output was somewhat sane; not so, more recent versions.

So, to address "polishing" issues, you may want to look at demoronizer (which is rather limited but eminently expansible... a project which has been (mostly 'sitting') on my ToDo shelf for far too long.

But as to your basic question, I can only echo the advice: publish and update; don't delay.

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Re^2: Publish or Polish by GrandFather (Saint) on Jun 22, 2005 at 22:20 UTC
I've looked at both demoronizer and tidy. Tidy strips out stuff that is usefull (like `<span>` tags). Demoronizer I glanced at, but decided I didn't gain much using it as a pre-pass over the HTML. It's easier to use HTML::TreeBuilder to suck in the lot, then pull out the elements that I'm interested in. Mostly works pretty well. I get headings, tables, some character styles (like `<code>`) and anchors. Perl is Huffman encoded by design.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: Publish or Polish
by GrandFather (Saint) on Jun 22, 2005 at 22:20 UTC

I've looked at both demoronizer and tidy. Tidy strips out stuff that is usefull (like <span> tags). Demoronizer I glanced at, but decided I didn't gain much using it as a pre-pass over the HTML.

It's easier to use HTML::TreeBuilder to suck in the lot, then pull out the elements that I'm interested in. Mostly works pretty well. I get headings, tables, some character styles (like <code>) and anchors.

Perl is Huffman encoded by design.

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