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Adnan Chaudhry
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Im doing a project on converting an HTML file into a well formatted version. To make the source code look 'nicer'.
Basically I have to take care of indentation and removing redundant tags.
Any suggestions of how I might tackle this problem?
-Adnan

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Cindy Glass
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Read in the file.
Parse it looking for specific no-no's
Replace those with prettier html
Write out the file.
Pretty straight forward.

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Steve Deadsea
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The devil is in the details. The parsing is the hard part. The best way is to learn to use lexer and grammar generators.
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Java/Development_Tools/Translators/Lexer_and_Parser_Generators/
 
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