HTML cleanup task

[Victor \Zverok\ Shepelev]

Hi all.

Sorry, if the question seems dumb.

My task is: I have some HTML fragment; no limitations on it correctness,
except of there can't be tag cutted:
This is possible: [</tr>.......] (fragment starts with closing tag)
This is not: [tr>...........]

I need to do tasks:
* Cut some tags with those contents, for ex., all tables
[before<table>inside</table>after] => [before after]
* cut some tags, leaving content:
[before<div>after] => [before after]
* other tags to make "consistent":
[before</p>after] => [before after]
[<p>before</p>after] => [<p>before</p>after]
.....

Can it be done with Hpricot? Or any other options?

Thanks.

V.

 

[Dmitry Borodaenko]

My task is: I have some HTML fragment; no limitations on it correctness,
except of there can't be tag cutted: (...)
Can it be done with Hpricot? Or any other options?

Tried HTMLTidy[0]? Sometimes it tries to be too smart, but it has a
lot of options. The way I do it[1] probably won't suit you, but might
give you some ideas.

[0] http://rubyforge.org/projects/tidy/

[1] http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/samizdat/samizdat/lib/samizdat/sanitize.rb?rev=1.99

 

[Victor \Zverok\ Shepelev]

From: Dmitry Borodaenko [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 4:21 PM

My task is: I have some HTML fragment; no limitations on it correctness,
except of there can't be tag cutted: (...)
Can it be done with Hpricot? Or any other options?

Tried HTMLTidy[0]?

Not really tried, but had thought about.
The problem is I need something really "small, smart and simple" not "huge
and almighty" (as Tidy seems).

But thanks for advice.

Dmitry Borodaenko

V.