Re: Cleaning up html

[Nicholas Clifford clifford@xxxxxxxx]

Your solution is far more ingenious than mine, but I do this all the
time from dowloaded newspaper and journal articles. I simply call up the
saved htm file in my browser, select what I want, copy it to the Windows
clipboard with Control-C, open a file in XyWrite, hit Alt-Enter to show
Xywrite in that little box (windows box?) and then use the paste command
on box. In goes all the text. Works like a charm, usually.
For some reason, though I save most of the stuff through my Netscape
browser, when I call it up to copy and paste it to XyWrite, I use Mr.
Gates's Internet Explorer, and that seems to work better.

Nicholas Clifford
clifford@xxxxxxxx
PS It would be nice if Windows programs like NBWin or Word for Windows,
could translate html files. They say they can, but in fact they can't,
and all the html junk appears in the word processing file. At least it
does for me.

Jay McNally wrote:
> Can anyone offer me some advice for this problem?
> I often need to take text from a web document that has been saved in
> html.
> My somewhat tedious but simple process for some years is to simply
> loop an xpl routine that defines then deletes everything from the
> first "less than" bracket to the next "greater than" bracket. I then
> manually clean up the rest of the junk. It works. . . .