Re: [gentoo-user] Any 'sed' geniuses out there?

[gentuxx <gentuxx@gmail.com>]

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Dave Nebinger wrote:

>> I'm writing a sed script that will parse the *broken* output of
>> man2html. I say broken, because the output isn't W3C compliant (html
>> OR xhtml). I'd like to be able to modify it so that the final outcome
>> is XHTML 1.0 compliant. I'm running into a problem where the output
>> doesn't close the <p>, <dt>, or <dd> tags.
>
>
> Won't html tidy do this kind of thing for you?
>
> It would seem to be easier to reuse an existing tested tool rather
> than trying to roll your own...
>
>
Well, while I enjoy a good challenge (especially sed, awk, or perl),
htmltidy does the trick quite nicely.  It doesn't indent the way that
I do, but my first priority was making the output W3C compliant, and
htmltidy's output is that.

Thanks Dave!

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