On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Every time I try to open a [perfectly good, working, known valid] HTML
> document in AbiWord, in order to save it as rtf, I get nothing but a
> pop-up dialog telling me that "Abiword cannot open blah.html. It appears
> to be a bogus or invalid document."
>
> Can anyone tell me what's going on here? Is opening a HTML document
> "supported, but not really" at the moment, or is AbiWord expecting
> something specific in meta-headers, or what?
AbiWord imports XHTML, and infact only a subset of XHTML. HTML import is,
however, being worked on. In the interim, you can try using tidy
(available from www.w3c.org) to turn your perfectly good, working, known
valid HTML into XHTML, cross your fingers, and try again...
Regards, Frank
Francis James Franklin
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Deep in the human unconsciousness is a pervasive need for a logical
universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step
beyond logic.
--- from `The Sayings of Muad'dib' by the Princess Irulan
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