On dim, 2002-09-29 at 20:10, Jim Hettmer wrote: > With 1.0.3 on RH7.3, I have technical documents created with an older > Netscape, html of course, which I would like to be able to convert over > to abw. Some small ones do, but normally I get the "bogus" message. > I've tried tidy -clean -asxhtml and -asxml, but to no avail. The small > html I created with abiword could be read back in provided I tidied it > first. > I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me what the current state, > thoughts, and recommendations are about importing html. Is there hope > for me, here?.
AbiWord does NOT import HTML. It only imports XHTML and not very well. There is an experimental plug-in for real HTML import, but that work is far from trivial. Don't expect anything before the next major release. > Also, maybe I'm being simplistic and/or naive, but it seemed to me > that if abiword would indicate something about what it found fault with, > I could possibly stumble around in the original and hand-edit the > offending stuff out? You need to build with debug turned on. Hub -- AbiWord hacker to hire. - Lille, France http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/ - Cell phone: +33 6 18 01 42 11 GPG fingerprint: 6C44 DB3E 0BF3 EAF5 B433 239A 5FEE 05E6 A56E 15A3
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