How many of you needed to clean up those messy MS Word files in order to integrate them into valid W3C pages, or just integrate them in the overall design ?
I’ve looked for a good HTML Cleaner and didn’t find a good free one.
Meanwhile, I’ve developed my own HTML Cleaner class in PHP, because I needed to clean up tons of word generated code in that time.
I’ve combined the strong HTML Tidy library with my own regular expression-based cleaning algorithms. I wanted a simple method to strip all unnecessary tags and styles yet to keep it W3C standard compliant.
Syntax checking is being done only when using Tidy.
Note that this tool is designed to strip/clean useless tags and attributes back to HTML basics and optimize code, not sanitize (like HTMLPurifier).
Without the tidy PHP extension, the class can:
– remove styles, attributes
– strip useless tags
– fill empty table cells with non-breaking spaces
– optimize code (merge inline tags, strip empty inline tags, trim excess new lines)
– drop empty paragraphs
– compress (trim space and new-line breaks).
In conjunction with tidy, the class can apply all tidy actions (clean-up, fix errors, convert to XHTML, etc) and then optionally perform all actions of the class (remove styles, compress, etc).
Currently the following cleaning method is implemented: tag whitelist/attribute blacklist
See it in action:
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Licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/)
for personal, non-commercial use
For commercial use one developer licence costs 15 EUROs
Changes:
v.1.0
-taken from RC6
v. 1.0 RC6
-added option to apply tidy before internal cleanup
-added function TidyClean() that cleans only with Tidy the source from html, modifying it
-changed license to Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
v. 1.0 RC5
-tidy cleanup works also with PHP 4.3 now. Correction: class is compatible with PHP >=4.3. PHP 5 recommended. Basic cleanup (no tidy) can work with earlier versions of PHP 4
-removed drop-empty-paras option from default tidy config since there is already an internal drop-empty-paras mechanism
-Optimize now defaults to true since is very useful
-new default tidy config options:
‘preserve-entities’ => true, // preserve the well-formed entities as found in the input (to display correctly some chars)
‘quote-ampersand’ => true,//output unadorned & characters as & (as required by W3C)
-default Encoding set to latin1
v. 1.0 RC4
-the class is now compatible with PHP 4.4 or higher (maybe 4.0, but never tested)
-minor bugfix for Optimize (loop until optimized now works correctly)
v. 1.0 RC3
-cleaning is now done case insensitive
-improved optimize, removed EXPERIMENTAL tag
-default tidy config now sets word-2000 to false
