Subject: Re: Importing HTML into AbiWord
From: Phil Stracchino (alaric@babcom.com)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2001 - 12:43:18 CST
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 06:33:03PM +0000, F J Franklin wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
> > Every time I try to open a [perfectly good, working, known valid] HTML
> > document in AbiWord, in order to save it as rtf, I get nothing but a
> > pop-up dialog telling me that "Abiword cannot open blah.html. It appears
> > to be a bogus or invalid document."
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what's going on here? Is opening a HTML document
> > "supported, but not really" at the moment, or is AbiWord expecting
> > something specific in meta-headers, or what?
>
> AbiWord imports XHTML, and infact only a subset of XHTML. HTML import is,
> however, being worked on. In the interim, you can try using tidy
> (available from www.w3c.org) to turn your perfectly good, working, known
> valid HTML into XHTML, cross your fingers, and try again...
Thanks, I'll give that a try.
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