Re: HTML formating app?

I have to look after a site that has lots of pages written with Front Page, 
MS Word and Adobe Golive.   You should see the mess that these apps can 
generate!!!   From Golive, I was presented with one page to work on that had 
a table with 85 columns and nearly 100 rows  - they had used the grid to 
move things about and the code was munged like you wouldn't believe.

I bring the pages into Dreamweaver and tidy them up there.   Dreamweaver is 
totally customisable - you want two new lines before a <tr>?  no problem.  
All <p> tags with two lines before, one line after, and content indented?   
No problem.  Just edit the SourceFormat.txt file.

Using the CleanUpHTML you can combine the messy Font commands that Front 
Page leaves behind with a single menu selection.  (e.g. <font size="2"><font 
color="blue"><font size="1"> will be combined into <font color="blue" 
size="1">)

It's not batch processing, but it's as close as you're going to get I think.

Or else you could use UltraEdit, which has wondrous macro capabilities, and 
can edit and replace over hundreds of files at a single go.   You could 
search and replace for all <td> and replace with cr/lf/tab<td>

Hope this helps you.

Cheers,
Mike Kear
AFP Web Development
Windsor, NSW, Australia
http:/www.afp.zip.com.au

>
>I am often faced with working on older sites here at work. I use pc and 
>Mac.
>Some of those older sites have the most horrid looking code you can 
>imagine.
>Does anyone no of an app or plugin that would automatically format the 
>code?
>(preferably with batch processing abilities)
>
>I use BBedit's formatting utility and it works pretty well. I was hoping
>there might be something else that would give me more formatting options so
>I can customize the code foramtting the way I write it. I also use
>Dreamweaver on both platforms...I have access to Homesite...but don't use 
>it
>too much, since I'm usually on the Mac. Any suggestions are welcome and
>appreciated.
>
>TIA!
>
>michael ' cool...I broke his brain.' heliker
>

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