HTML whitespace/commnets cruncher

[Garry Heaton]

Can anyone recommend a perl script for crunching HTML whitespace and
comments? I wish to make duplicates of HTML files for uploading.

Garry Heaton

 

[ko]

Can anyone recommend a perl script for crunching HTML whitespace and
comments? I wish to make duplicates of HTML files for uploading.

Garry Heaton

Use one of the HTML parsing modules. For example:

http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/HTML-Parser-3.33/

Download and unpack the distribution, and check out the example scripts
in the 'eg' directory.

HTH - keith

 

[Eric J. Roode]

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Can anyone recommend a perl script for crunching HTML whitespace and
comments? I wish to make duplicates of HTML files for uploading.

Why not gzip the html files? Seems to me that'd be even better.


A quick google search turned up a couple freeware and commercial HTML
strippers. And I seem to recall there's an apache module that does it, but
I'm not sure.

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[Gregory Toomey]

It was a dark and stormy night, and Garry Heaton managed to scribble:

Can anyone recommend a perl script for crunching HTML whitespace and
comments? I wish to make duplicates of HTML files for uploading.

Garry Heaton

Would you believe I saw some code yesterday on the net that did this but now I cant find it.

The basic algorithm used regular expressions and was only a few lines long:
convert consecutive whitespace characters to single whitespace
remove whitespace from the beginning of lines
conver consecutive newlines to a single newline

gtoomey

 

[Tad McClellan]

Look at the code on this page: http://webcode.ru/cgi/despace1/

It has several bugs in it.

It open()s FILE, but never reads from it.

It uses ampersand on function calls when it does not want the
semantics the go with using ampersand on function calls.

It will mangle spaces in <pre> sections.