Subject: RE: [xsl] Re: legacy embedded HTML From: "jparlato" <jparlato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 06:05:36 -0400 |
Isn't there some monitoring of language like Murhpy's on this site. Perhaps Mr Murphy should remain in his cottage and stay of the net. I'd prefer that he did. -----Original Message----- From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gary Lawrence Murphy Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 9:07 PM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [xsl] Re: legacy embedded HTML >>>>> "R" == Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: R> Hi, Are you paying for ths feed?? They should process the crap R> out first. Forgive my sounding like a broken CD player, but in the real world, function prevails over form almost every time ;) In this particular example, what we buy arrives as pure ASCII (likely generated from ancient mainframe apps) punctuated by XML-like tags. I suppose I could just ring up all the international press agencies from my little woodland cottage office in Sauble Beach and demand they fix their whole goddam industry right frickin now, but somehow, I don't think it would elicit much more than a politely muffled laugh. Our program (sportwire.sourceforge.net) cleans the received feed into something that will actually parse, and filters any likely CDATA through an opensource program called txt2html to trap paragraph breaks, tables, headlines, urls, emails and other key items ... any recommendations for better free ascii-html converters are most welcome. R> product by Andy Clark called nekoHTML that can balance your R> tags for you. Maybe it is worth another try to get well-formed R> XML. For a newswire application, that only gets us one tiny step farther, but thanks for that reference; it may still be helpful. -- Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@xxxxxxxxxxx> TeleDynamics Communications Inc Business Innovations Through Open Source Systems: http://www.teledyn.com "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."(Pablo Picasso) XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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