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

If you are in an *nix environment, you can also try using p:exec in combination with the lesspipe.sh script (a preprocessor filter for less capable of basic HTML "rendering"). But maybe I have completely misunderstood your requirement. 

Regards,
Vojtech

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xproc-dev-request@w3.org [mailto:xproc-dev-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of Alex Muir
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 11:12 AM
> To: mozer
> Cc: XProc Dev
> Subject: Re: Are there any open source tools that work with xproc that
> convert html to well formatted text?
> 
> 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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