Reformatting Bad HTML

by timrosenblatt on 2/18/2011, 5:33 PM with 8 comments
  • by alcuadrado on 2/18/2011, 6:05 PM

    I think a better (or more moddern) approach would be to use an HTML5 parser (like html5lib), as it has a standar way to parse INVALID documents too, and then recreate the HTML with the DOM.

    BTW: Paul Irish has this ticket asking for help/someone to update lazyweb to use an HTML5 parser: https://github.com/paulirish/lazyweb-requests/issues#issue/2...

  • by benvanderbeek on 2/18/2011, 7:42 PM
  • by cheald on 2/18/2011, 11:06 PM

    My preferred method is "html2haml < filename.html | haml". Doesn't care about document validity - just cleans up attributes and tag nesting/indentation. Generally speaking, I don't want the document corrected, just reformatted. Works for any XML, too, not just HTML.

  • by tetsuharu on 2/18/2011, 5:57 PM

    this even works for .html.erb files