Re: conversion problem - where to find a cure?

[Alan Sinclair (DNI)]

> From: "Robert O'Connor" > Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 18:45:28 -0000 > Subject: Re: conversion problem - where to find a cure? > > On 8 Nov 2002 at 10:45, Alan Sinclair wrote: > > > A Plucker conversion is failing ... please can someone tell me where to begin finding a cure? > > > Error:  Runtime error parsing document file:D:\temp\Dubliners.htm: unexpected char in declaration: > > '<' > >   Parsing failed. > > Illegal tags. > > The text has some illegal tags in it, like <![garbage]>. Remove them to make proper legal HTML > to parse. > > Best wishes, > Robert Thanks Robert!     Any hints on removing the illegal tags would be welcome.  I don't really know HTML.  Is there any way to automatically scan or clean up the close-to-1-Meg source document, rather than hunting for needles in the haystack (and not being sure what a needle looks like?)    Or can the conversion engine be persuaded to give locations or other diagnostics?  The first compiler I worked on --too many years ago-- ran overnight, and at the end of compilation would say "a syntax error was found" ... i thought software had moved on a bit :-)   The html-creator being MS Word, there are many, many things like     <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>    ... etc Do they really all have to be removed?  If so, then clearly I need some other way of going from text to html.  How do other people do this?  What's the best/simplest way to get from Project Gutenberg to Plucker?   Many thanks again Alan   PS where is the plucker FAQ?  If the plucker-list mailings included a pointer to it, that might save someone some duplication of effort ...