[thelist] batch conversion of word to html

[Shirley Kaiser (SKDesigns)]

Zach,

I've also done this with HomeSite and HTML Tidy (David mentioned HTML 
Tidy and BBEdit). HTML Tidy has a feature specifically designed to clean 
up Word documents, and it does a pretty nifty job of it, too.

I haven't worked with regular expressions yet, although I see it in my 
near future. I've done the above just using HTML Tidy and then 
HomeSite's search/replace if needed (using the Project feature, which 
will search/replace for an entire web site, for example).

There's a Dreamweaver discussion list that could undoubtedly answer this 
question more specifically, too. It's listed in Discussion Lists at 
websitetips.com:
http://www.websitetips.com/lists/

Your request is not at all an unusual situation. I'll be curious to know 
what you find out with Dreamweaver, if you remember to let us know.

Warmly,
Shirley
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McCreath_David wrote:

> Hi, Zach --
> 
> I've gone down this path before, and although I never tried AppleScript, I
> never found a super-duper automated way to do it.
> 
> Two things that have been suggested on this topic on the list before are
> HTMLTidy and BBEdit. I ended up using BBEdit and it's RegEx search and
> replace feature. It's not exactly automated, but you can save your
> expressions for future use and BBEdit will fairly rip through dozens of HTML
> files in a batch.
> 
> It's worth looking at if for no other reason than it's a good intro to
> Regular Expressions if you've never used them before.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
>> I've dug up an AppleScript that will convert a batch of Word files to HTML,
>> using Word's "save as HTML" feature. What I'm looking for now is a way to
>> script Dreamweaver so a batch of HTML files can be cleaned up using the
>> "clean up Word HTML" feature.
>> 
>> Dreamweaver doesn't appear to have much of an AppleScript dictionary...does
>> anyone have any thoughts on this subject?