Ok... I had a worse problem with the project i was involved...

I had to "clean-up" from MSOffice html to produce nice xml that would be "eaten" up by fop.

The issue was simply sorted with the use of tons of regexp, coupled with the use of tidy to convert the html to xml compliant html and then the final fase of transform to fo (i opted for doing it by hand, but xslt can also be used after you have a compliant xml).

I opted not to use xslt because of the ton of exceptions that MSOffice trash inserted into the html. And my cleanup system had more then 500 lines of code! Full of regexps, replaces and the like.

My main problems where:

a) tags intermingled in the wrong order like < b > < i > < / b > < / i > (tidy)
b) tags without start/end < br > < l i > (replaces)
c) uncompreensible stuff: all the css and meta tags MSOffice likes so much (regexp and replaces) d) strange characters: unicode entities not declared, characters that break xml < & (regexp and replaces)

To conclude, yes, it was a work intensive task, but in the end, i had a clean html, with the formatings i needed to keep and those that i didn't needed removed. And when you have 5k pages of text to review, you don't go and tell the client: "correct the text and try again"... You do something to cleanup the problems (the great majority of them at least).

In the example you provided the following will break xml:

         <Title>Na zolotom kryl&apos;ce sideli</Title>

Most of the regexp and replaces i had to use was to replace stuff like that with the xml compliant ones (and/or define stuff as entity).

So, good luck on the project... and hope i was of some help...
LF

P.S.- it was all done with php/tidy/javabridge/tomcat/fop btw and if you want an advice, twick the editor to allow only the stuff you need and try to use tidy for the rest, prolly you can sort out all the problems that way.


Tatiyana escreveu:
Dear All,
 Two months ago fop was completely new area for me but with great help of
this forum I got our web application to use FOP transformation (xml -> xsl
-> pdf) to make pdf  summary form for users.  Users were filling information
fields and getting standard summary form in pdf format as a one of the results. Now users are allowed to edit some of the text fields using tiny-mce editor
and because of it  our xml file ended up having  some parts with html code
inside.  Could somebody please  help me  to figure out what changes need to
be done in the xml or xsl files to recognize html elements in xml file and
show them in the pdf form properly?  I am using fop-0.94, jdk1.5.0.
I am attaching the part of xsl file and xml file. The Title and Description
elements of the Public Service node  and  International Service node will
have html code inside. Thank you. http://www.nabble.com/file/p17214471/xsl_file.xsl.doc xsl_file.xsl.doc http://www.nabble.com/file/p17214471/xml_file.xml.doc xml_file.xml.doc



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