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Re: Selective escaping of special characters
- From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin at mitretek dot org>
- To: <XSL-List at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:25:59 -0500
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Selective escaping of special characters
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[Kyrre Wathne]
> My apologies if this question has been asked before, I haven't found posts
> that address this exact issue.
>
> My problem is that I want to transform junk HTML generated by Microsoft
> Word. This contains markup, of course, so my first instinct was to use
> disable-output-escaping. However, this also disables escaping of other
> special characters, like the special dash character –. These are
then
> outputted in a format my browser (Internet Explorer) doesn't understand (I
> use "ISO-8859-1" as encoding in output).
>
Not exactly what you asked for, but HTML-Tidy has a setting that causes it
to remove all the Microsoft junk from Word2000 output. There are java and C
versions, with various wrappers including Python. One fast preprocessing
pass with Tidy will do a really nice job of getting rid of all that noise,
much easier than trying to get a stylesheet working.
Cheers,
Tom P
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