de-moronifying input?

2002-04-18 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
For a paragraph in The Book (oh, you're going to get SO bored with this ;-), I'm talking about processing stuff from "plain" text into HTML before stuffing it in the database. The kinds of mangling I have include: 1. Running HTML::Entities across it to de-8 bit the data 2. Wrapping round obvio

Re: de-moronifying input?

2002-04-18 Thread Roger Burton West
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 10:41:04AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >1. Running HTML::Entities across it to de-8 bit the data Does that include s/

Re: de-moronifying input?

2002-04-18 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > this ;-), I'm talking about processing stuff from "plain" text into > HTML > > > Anything else? > * Putting on tabbed/indented sections if they are blocks of text, as opposed to ... * Converting nice lists like this to ;-) -- Greg

Re: de-moronifying input?

2002-04-18 Thread Steve Keay
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 10:41:04AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > For a paragraph in The Book (oh, you're going to get SO bored with > this ;-), I'm talking about processing stuff from "plain" text into > HTML before stuffing it in the database. The kinds of mangling I have > include: > > 1.

Re: de-moronifying input?

2002-04-18 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > For a paragraph in The Book (oh, you're going to get SO bored with > this ;-), I'm talking about processing stuff from "plain" text into > HTML before stuffing it in the database. The kinds of mangling I have > include: > > 1. Running HTML::Entities a

Re: de-moronifying input?

2002-04-18 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Roger Burton West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 10:41:04AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > >1. Running HTML::Entities across it to de-8 bit the data > > Does that include s/http://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The Highway Starhttp://www.thehighwaystar.co

Re: de-moronifying input?

2002-04-18 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Simon Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How about converting to XML instead ? Different chapter ;-) -- Dave Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hire http://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The Highway Starhttp://www.thehighwaystar.com Interim Technical Director, Web Architectur