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Subject:RE: HTML to XML conversion From:Jason Willebeek-LeMair <jlemair -at- cisco -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:41:49 -0600
You can use HTMLTidy to batch convert a bunch of HTML files to XML.
However, what you get is an XML document that uses the HTML vocabulary.
Then, you can create an XSLT to convert those file to a target document type
(such as DocBook). You will probably have some manual cleanup to do later,
especially if your target markup is semantically richer than HTML.
We did this for 1000+ files, and it worked pretty well. However, if you only
need to do 1 or 2 HTML files, I would suggest doing it by hand. You will
spend less time doing that then writing the XSLT.
Jason
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