Re: Are there any open source tools that work with xproc that convert html to well formatted text?

This looks like a XSLT transformation to me

Xmlizer

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Alex Muir <alex.g.muir@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working with some html documents the style of which looks like say
> a straight forward word document which when I tried saving as text
> from firefox looked a lot like the HTML version in terms of the
> spacing of the text content,, except some tables which were garbage.
> So a subsection in the HTML was still easily determined to be a
> subsection in the text because the presentational formatting specified
> in the HTML was preserved in the text output.
>
> I've found more success thus far identifying the different textual
> elements of a text document than HTML perhaps because HTML has so many
> possibilities of layouts whereas text is pretty simple thing to parse
> out and identify where a table is or where a section, subsection is...
>
> Does that make sense regarding the well formatted?
>
> Alex
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:54 AM, mozer <xmlizer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> oups read too fast : I read "well formed"
>>
>> What do you mean by well formatted text representation ?
>>
>> Xmlizer
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:53 AM, mozer <xmlizer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> p:unescape-markup
>>> or
>>> p:http-request should do that
>>>
>>> Xmlizer
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Alex Muir <alex.g.muir@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm interested to have a step in a pipeline that converts HTML to a
>>>> well formatted text representation.
>>>>
>>>> Are there any open source tools that do that that fit into xproc?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
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>>
>
>
>
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> Alex
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>
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>
>
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