[ILUG] moronic HTML

[Alan Sobey]

Believe it or not, Microsoft has release it's own parser for <Ahem> "html"
files - What's more I think it's currently on it's second incarnation.  It's
a plug-in for Word rather than a stand-alone app.  Bit of useless trivia
that.

You could try out html tidy from http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/ with
lots of options (including a word-2000 flag).
 From the site:

"word-2000: bool
If set, Tidy will go to great pains to strip out all the surplus stuff
Microsoft Word 2000 inserts when you save Word documents as "Web pages". The
default is no."

> Someone sent me a file that looks like Word9 got it's hands on it. It's
> covered in XML-ish looking style code. Anyone got a program to get rid of
> this ? It does render in netscape, but it looks horrid.
>
>  I tryed Demoroniser, but it didn't change much...
>
> Kate
>
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