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Re: Convert HTML Table into man pages



On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:50:55 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Laurent Guignard <lguignard.debian@gmail.com>, 2009-08-05, 20:48:
>>> >   I need to generate a man page for KWStyle the only available
>>> > documentation is in HTML:
>>> >
>>> > http://public.kitware.com/KWStyle/documentation.htm
>>> >
>>> >   Is there a way to turn this HTML table into something 'nice' as a man
>>> > page ?
>>>
>>> Of course. xsltproc can process XML as well as HTML. Write an
>>> XSLT stylesheet, which processes the HTML page and outputs
>>> a text document (your manual page).
>>>
>>> Should be pretty easy to do, if you have some XSLT knowledge.
>>>
>>
>> This is true only if HTML is well-formed XHTML.
>
> I believe you are wrong:
>
> $ xsltproc | grep -- --html
> 	--html: the input document is(are) an HTML file(s)
>

I found a limit :
all HTML tags (a, body,...) have to be lower character in the XSL sheet.
Otherwise, yes i was wrong but i don't use it every day ;)
Before saying something i have to verify. That is a lesson ;)

Best regards.

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