Re: Non-trivial task of converting text to HTML

Roman Ivanov wrote:

Task: Create a script that converts text into HTML with paragraphs. Problem: Input text could use the book notation, as well as the web notation, plus it can contain HTML. == <h1>This is a title</h1> This is a Book paragraph. This is another book paragraph. This is yet another book paragraph, but it's not indented with spaces, because user wrote it in OpenOffice. == == This is a web paragraph. This is another web paragraph.

what is a book paragraph, what is a web paragraph? (exactly) have you looked at the Tidy extension? in short it kicks ass at cleaning up junk HTML - possibly a good start.

This is yet another web paragraph, which is indented with spaces for some unknown reason. == Output text should be correctly formatted without using lots of br's and &nbsp;'s. Doing so manually is not a problem, I would just use <p> for web paragraphs, and <p class="book"> for book paragraphs. However, formatting such text with a scrip is very difficult. Does anyone knows a good exaple of such script?