[wellylug] Frontpage to something useful?

[Donovan Jones]

On 6/19/07, Jeff Hunt <jeffhunt90 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have struggled with similar problems across the years and never really
> found a quick technique. What I use at present is Amaya which is Open Source
> and part of W3C.
> If a page is very simple you can create a new (valid) page in the (X)HTML
> of your choice and paste in text and insert images. You still need  time and
> learning though.
> It works for me because I have my own sites and stylesheet that I know my
> way around and I can paste in text and install pictures and use existing
> style to do quick fine-tuning.
> I hope someone knows a neater technique and can tell us.
> http://humanist.org.nz/sitehumanist/maintain.html is an example.
>
> Unfortunately Amaya is not yet powerful enough to unscramble the sort of
> stuff Frontpage creates and you would get hundreds of error messages.



Hi Jeff

If you are keen to have your html validate against the w3 standards you
might like to install the HTML Validator plugin for Firefox which is
available here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/249

It makes it easy to look at the results of HTML Tidy or an alternative w3c
algorithm called OpenSP (SGML Parser).


> > Does anyone know if there is an easy way to export from Frontpage (or
> > import into) to a free or preferably opensource tool.
>
>
I would suggest running the html through tidy and then use the editor of
your choice on the results (vim, nvu, bluefish, quanta plus, whatever).

I have achieved good results cleaning up a fairly large site by combining
tidy and the LibXML::XML perl module for getting rid of various parts of the
DOM tree. This does however require knowledge of perl and xpath. I think
tidy should get you most of the way there.

Don
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