RE: Cleaning up html

[Jay McNally jmcnally@xxxxxxxx]

Many thanks Brian,

This works. I tried a version of this yesterday and screwed it up.

Jay

At 07:00 AM 6/4/02 -0700, you wrote:

> Jay, you can use CH \<"wild-string">\\ and everything in brackets,
> including the brackets, will be deleted. I just tried this on a 2-meg SGML
> file and only one set of brackets was left (it had 53 characters and it
> wrapped, maybe that had something to do with it). This technique can be
> somewhat dangerous if there's a missing close-bracket.
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> Then there's always the (blasphemous) technique where you open the HTML
> file in a browser and use it to save the file as text...that'll do the
> trick too.
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>
> Brian Henderson
> Print Composition Dept.
> Mitchell Repair Information Co.
> San Diego, CA
> www.mitchell1.com
> brian.henderson@xxxxxxxx
> (858) 391-5000 - x.6533
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay McNally [mailto:jmcnally@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 6:29 AM
> To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Cleaning up html
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> Can anyone offer me some advice for this problem?
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> I often need to take text from a web document that has been saved in html.
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> 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.
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> Can I run a CHange command with wildcards that would erase the whole string
> between the brackets, such as the following junk?
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> I'm thinking it would be nice to have one command that would clean out
> everything between the brackets, then another command deleting the
> brackets. I tinkered with it briefly yesterday and got nowhere.
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> Is there a simpler way around this problem?
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> Thanks
>
> Jay