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Parsing A Microsoft Word-generated HTML file

Using PHP to include an HTML file saved from Microsoft Word displays some horrid horrid things. Is there anyway to strip out Microsoft's worthless code or force a certain character set? To see what I mean: http://kunatri.pair.com/enet2/websites/academyoceangrille/menu.php?menu=lunch

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- Matthew McVickar

This may be of some help if run on a windows system.

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse.html/package/388

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RAAAH

Would it really be so hard to convert the menu to HTML? I think Word even has Export to HTML functionality somewhere... (I'm not sure how good the resulting HTML would look, though.)

Also, there are some Windows extensions for PHP available.

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<3

Oxy: I am running Apache, not IIS.

Noel: That is the exported HTML. Not even Microsoft's own browser can parse the code correctly. But-- hmm...

(tries something else)

I just removing the charset declaration. That improved the look slightly in my amazing browser (Safari), but IE is still hacking up a lung.

Any advice?

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- Matthew McVickar

Last edited by Matthew_Aaron, June 22nd, 2004 05:50 AM (Edited 1 times)

maybe tell the client to not use crappy software to make html?

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BigToach: I'd love to, believe me, but it's not an option. That, also, would be solving the wrong problem. Why not tell Microsoft to stop making crappy software?

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- Matthew McVickar