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<span>Posted:</span> 12 Jun 2017 02:03 AM PDT</p>
<div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"><div class="body"> <p class="p">Let's say you have a bunch of possible not-wellformed <strong class="ph b">HTML</strong> documents already created and you want to process them using <strong class="ph b">XSLT</strong>. For example you may want to migrate the <strong class="ph b">HTML</strong> to <strong class="ph b">DITA</strong> using the predefined <strong class="ph b">XHTML to DITA Topic</strong> transformation scenario available in Oxygen. So you need to create valid XML wellformed <strong class="ph b">XHTML</strong> documents from the existing <strong class="ph b">HTML</strong> documents and you need to do this in a batch processing automated fashion. </p> <div class="p">There are lots of open source projects which deliver processors which can convert <strong class="ph b">HTML</strong> to its wellformed <strong class="ph b">XHTML</strong> equivalent. For this blog post we'll use <a class="xref" href="http://www.html-tidy.org/" target="_blank">HTML Tidy</a>. Here are a couple of steps to automate this process:<ol class="ol" id="batch_converting_html_to_xhtml__ol_qmj_mmz_21b"> <li class="li">Create a new folder on your hard drive (for example I created one on my <strong class="ph b">Desktop</strong>: <code class="ph codeph">C:\Users\radu_coravu\Desktop\tidy</code>) and download there the HTML Tidy executable specific for your platform: <a class="xref" href="http://binaries.html-tidy.org/" target="_blank">http://binaries.html-tidy.org/</a>.</li> <li class="li">In the same folder with the <strong class="ph b">Tidy</strong> executable create an <strong class="ph b">ANT</strong> build file called <code class="ph codeph">build.xml</code> having the following content: <pre class="pre codeblock language-xml"><strong class="hl-tag" style="color:#000096"><project</strong> <span class="hl-attribute" style="color: #ff7935">basedir</span>=<span class="hl-value" style="color: #993300">"."</span> <span class="hl-attribute" style="color: #ff7935">name</span>=<span class="hl-value" style="color: #993300">"TidyUpHTMLtoXHTML"</span> <span class="hl-attribute" style="color: #ff7935">default</span>=<span class="hl-value" style="color: #993300">"main"</span><strong class="hl-tag" style="color:#000096">></strong><br /> <strong class="hl-tag" style="color:#000096"><basename</strong> <span class="hl-attribute" style="color: #ff7935">property</span>=<span class="hl-value" style="color: #993300">"filename"</span> <span class="hl-attribute" style="color: #ff7935">file</span>=<span class="hl-value" style="color: #993300">"${file}"</span><strong class="hl-tag" style="color:#000096">/></strong><br /> <strong class="hl-tag" style="color:#000096"><target</strong> <span class="hl-attribute" style="color: #ff7935">name</span>=<span class="hl-value" style="color: #993300">"main"</span><strong class="hl-tag" style="color:#000096">></strong><br /> <strong class="hl-tag" style="color:#000096"><exec</strong> <span class="hl-attribute" style="color: #ff7935">command</span>=<span class="hl-value" style="color: #993300">"tidy.exe -o ${output.dir}/${filename} ${file}"</span><strong class="hl-tag" style="color:#000096">/></strong><br /> <strong class="hl-tag" style="color:#000096"></target></strong><br /><strong class="hl-tag" style="color:#000096"></project></strong></pre></li> <li class="li">Link in the Oxygen <strong class="ph b">Project</strong> view the entire folder where the original <strong class="ph b">HTML</strong> documents are located.</li> <li class="li">Right click the folder, choose <strong class="ph b">Transform->Configure Transformation Scenarios...</strong> and create a new transformation scenario of type <strong class="ph b">ANT Scenario</strong>. Modify the following properties in the transformation scenario:<ol class="ol" type="a" id="batch_converting_html_to_xhtml__ol_nxx_dnz_21b"> <li class="li">Change the scenario name to something relevant like <strong class="ph b">HTML to XHTML</strong>.</li> <li class="li">Change the <strong class="ph b">Working Directory</strong> to point to the folder where the ANT build file is located, in my case: <code class="ph codeph">C:\Users\radu_coravu\Desktop\tidy</code>.</li> <li class="li">Change the <strong class="ph b">Build file</strong> to point to your custom <strong class="ph b">build.xml</strong>, in my case: <code class="ph codeph">C:\Users\radu_coravu\Desktop\tidy\build.xml</code>.</li> <li class="li">In the <strong class="ph b">Parameters</strong> tab add a parameter called <strong class="ph b">file</strong> with value <strong class="ph b">${cf}</strong> and a parameter called <strong class="ph b">output.dir</strong> with value the path to the output folder where the equivalent XHTML files will be stored, in my case I set it to: <code class="ph codeph">C:\Users\radu_coravu\Desktop\testOutputXHTML</code>.</li> </ol></li> <li class="li">Apply the newly transformation scenario on the entire folder containing the HTML documents. At the end in the output folder you will find the XHTML equivalents of the original HTML files, XHTML documents which can later be processed using XML technologies like <strong class="ph b">XSLT</strong> or <strong class="ph b">XQuery</strong>.</li> </ol></div> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AboutOxygenXmlEditor/~4/aF0B0Z1Zw1I?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1" alt=""/></div>
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