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Not CI related indeed, but every now and then I come across to this issue many of you may now:
When a customer sends you tons of .doc pages to be translated into html pages, how do you manage to sort out clean semantic markup from the files?

I tried exporting from Word to xhtml, from DreamWeaver and every text editor I could open in my desktop, but I always get those pesky Mso tags and useless classes all over the text.

Anyone has a one-stop solution to help me?
I’m on Mac.

TIA,

Andrea G

Textedit can usually do this pretty easily, if the word doc isn’t formatted too crazy.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060828093624972

The other benefit is that Textedit’s engine is accessible via the command line (for batch scripts). I have used a command like the following to convert RTF to HTML in the past. Not sure if it could be adapted to doc, but maybe.

find . -name '*.rtf' | xargs textutil -convert html -strip -excludedelements '(head,span,style,font)'

I have this saved in my .profile as an alias.

Search google for “textutil” for more.

Thanx a lot Elvix.

I didn’t realize that TextEdit could make such a good job.
The Xhtml resulting is close to perfect from what I’ve seen by now, except
for a ‘p’  tag placed in every line (I guess no app can’t distinguish from a good and an unnecessary ‘p’)...

Unfortunately I’m completely noob in using CLI so I can’t help using your shortcut.
Would it be possible to convert it to an AppleScript?
Anybody manged to do that?

Thanks again,

Andrea G