- From: Matthew Stanfield <mattstan@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:32:59 +0100
- To: jany.quintard@free.fr
- CC: Fred.Bone@dial.pipex.com, html-tidy@w3.org
Jany Quintard wrote: > * Matthew Stanfield [Wed, 11/06/2003 at 15:41 +0100] > >>>>The problem is that a form is started in a table after the first <tr> but >>>>before that <tr>'s first <td>. Hence the following errors and warning. >>> >>> >>>>How can I make this get tidied. -- I am stuck!! >>> >>> >>>Move <form> to precede <table> and </form> to follow </table> >> >>Thanks. I just worked this out a few minutes before your email arrived, but >>my problem is that I need to Tidy a lot of these pages - too many to do >>manually. Does anyone know how I can get HTML Tidy to tidy this without >>having to change it manually? What options could I use? Or, since I don't >>actually need any of the data in the forms, how I can remove them? Any >>other ideas? > > If your tags are on the same line, use sed > sed s!<table><form>!<form><table>!g > else use awk. > You can even remove the breakline between end and begin tags and use > sed. > It is a bit "brute force", but it should work. > > Jany > Thanks. I believe sed and awk are UNIX commands. I use HTML Tidy in some screen scraping software I've written. The html is downloaded and tidied into xml using tidied using Charles Reitzel's .net Wrapper for HTML Tidy, then I run some xslt on the xml to extract the useful information. I don't want to have to run an extra non-tidy routine to tidy my data. Is there no way to achieve what I want from within Tidy? Thanks guys and regards, ..matthew
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