Re: tlug: HTML beautifier

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:

> I'm trying to find a shortcut to take the way some people's HTML looks
> and transmogrify it to how I want it to look.  Specifically, they use
> lowercase in all their tags, and oddly, sometimes make the attributes
> uppercase.  Accordingly, this shortcut needs to:
> 
> 1) Convert all alphabetic characters following a < to uppercase, until a
> space or = sign is encountered.  It should not be spooked by double-byte
> characters, and of course, ignore all characters other than alphabetic
> ones, the = sign, or a space.
> 
> 2) Convert all alphabetic characters between a set of quotation marks to
> lowercase.  Again, it should not be spooked by double-byte characters,
> and it should ignore all non-alphabetic characters in the string to be
> converted.
> 
> 3) Do the whole document in one fell swoop.
> 
> A standalone batch utility for this would be great, but if anybody knows
> of an Xemacs macro that does this, that would be OK too.
> 
> If there's no such beast, I'll try to figure out how to write one
> myself, and pass it along if it works.

a perl script would be excellent for this.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
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