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Old June 18th, 2003, 06:23 AM
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removing MS Word HTML from a file
Hi,

I have a problem with converting word docs to HTML. As you probably know, when word generates its HTML it has a lot of needless tags. Is there a way I can cut these out and just leave basic formatting tags such as <b>, <br>, <ol>, <li> etc.

I found this code to remove Word HTML

PHP Code:
 $search = array ("'<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>'si",  // Strip out javascript 
                 "'<[\/\!]*?[^<>]*?>'si",           // Strip out html tags 
                 "'([\r\n])[\s]+'",                 // Strip out white space 
                 "'&(quot|#34);'i",                 // Replace html entities 
                 "'&(amp|#38);'i", 
                 "'&(lt|#60);'i", 
                 "'&(gt|#62);'i", 
                 "'&(nbsp|#160);'i", 
                 "'&(iexcl|#161);'i", 
                 "'&(cent|#162);'i", 
                 "'&(pound|#163);'i", 
                 "'&(copy|#169);'i", 
                 "'&#(\d+);'e");                    // evaluate as php 

$replace = array ("", 
                  "", 
                  "\\1", 
                  "\"", 
                  "&", 
                  "<", 
                  ">", 
                  " ", 
                  chr(161), 
                  chr(162), 
                  chr(163), 
                  chr(169), 
                  "chr(\\1)"); 

$content = preg_replace ($search, $replace, $content); 


I found this on another site as a solution for removing word HTML but the problem is it removes all of the HTML leaving the file as a blob of text only with nor line breaks or anything. I am afraid I don't understand the code above fully so I was hoping someone on here could help me out.

Basically, I need help modiying the code above to remove all the crap but still leave certain tags.

Thanks in advance,
Martin
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Old June 18th, 2003, 10:10 AM
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bah,...it won't let me post a .rar file,....grrr
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Old June 18th, 2003, 12:42 PM
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PHP Code:
<?php 

function cleanUpHTML($text) { 
     
    // remove escape slashes 
    $text = stripslashes($text); 
     
    // trim everything before the body tag right away, leaving possibility for body attributes 
    $text = stristr( $text, "<body"); 
     
    // strip tags, still leaving attributes, second variable is allowable tags 
    $text = strip_tags($text, '<p><b><i><u><a><h1><h2><h3><h4><h4><h5><h6>'); 
         
    // removes the attributes for allowed tags, use separate replace for heading tags since a 
    // heading tag is two characters 
    $text = ereg_replace("<([p|b|i|u])[^>]*>", "<\\1>", $text); 
    $text = ereg_replace("<([h1|h2|h3|h4|h5|h6][1-6])[^>]*>", "<\\1>", $text); 
     
    return ($text); 

} 

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Old June 18th, 2003, 12:44 PM
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The solution is to use the Office HTML Filter tool provided by MS. I've had really good luck with it when I've needed to convert Word HTML in the past.

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Otherwise, if you have a version of Dreamweaver, they have a built in feature to clean up Word HTML that is found under Commands.
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Old June 18th, 2003, 01:56 PM
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Dreamweaver has proven to be quite useless in stripping word html:

Here is an example of what you could do with the open source command line html tidy program:

http://www.laidbak.net/tidyword/index.php?s=1
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Hi,

Thanks for the replies. The problem is, I don't need to strip HTML from word HTML documents.....I need to do it dynamically from the content of a text box which will then be added to a database. The text box has a WYSIWG editor which keeps the word formatting (which is what I need) when you paste the content but it also keeps the Word HTML junk.

Laidbak, I will try the code you gave below.

Thanks.
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Old June 19th, 2003, 03:48 AM
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Ok, well since everything will be in the html textarea and not in a file on the server you will have to change this line:

PHP Code:
 $cleanhtml = `./tidy -clean --word-2000 yes wordhtml.htm`; 


You will need to pass in the info from the textbox to this piece of code.
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