Depends on how bad the table-soup is, but I usually like to
start with some basic cleanup with find/replace using regular
expressions in DWMX.
Search for: </{0,1}(table|tr|td)([^>]*)>
Replace with:
You can, of course, add more tag names in there depending on your situation,
with the obvious caveat that this only removes the tags themselves, not the
content in between opening/closing tags...so if you have, say, a block
of javascript
<script type="text/javascript">
blahblah
</script>
Running a replace for </{0,1}(script)([^>]*)> will leave blahblah in place...
Anyway, your mileage may vary, and it will still need a good ammount of
hand-cleaning...but at least it removes the tougher stains left on the table cloth.
Patrick
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Patrick H. Lauke
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lea de Groot
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> Subject: [WSG] technique of converting to tablefree layout
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> What are people's preferred techniques for 'screen scraping' existing
> sites to get the text from a tag-soup table layout?
> When a page has copious links and such, simply copying the text from
> the browser doesn't always give enough content to be a useful quick
> method.
>
> Lea
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