OOC technical question...

[sythyry]

I want to transform some HTML files with XSL.
Techy details:

• It's a lot of files, like a couple hundred.  Doing it via command line or something else batchly would be preferred.
  
• It's on a Windows machine.
• They're HTML, not XHTML.  (Which annoys me, 'cause I've got all the gadgetry to do it on XHTML)
• I do, indeed, want to transform files -- I want to put the output files into somewhere convenient, so I can toss 'em on a web site or something.
• I have surely forgotten details.

Thanks for any help!

Comments

[mattlazycat.livejournal.com]

How much PHP do you know? There's a PEAR module called HTML_SAX that'll present an XML parser interface for badly formed documents (like HTML). If you can get XML_XSLT_Wrapper to use that instead of its default XML parser, it'll do transformations on multiple files for you. If not, you could use Tidy to convert your HTML to XML as an intermediary step. What sort of system are you running? I might be able to help.

I hope I'm not talking Nice Language at you! :)

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Nah, I've got a PhD in computer languages, I can follow. I've met PHP (but hadn't thought of using it on this) and JTidy. This approach sounds like it'll take a bit of programming to get the tools working -- I was hoping to hear about a command-line XSL processor with a -html flag on it, or something like that, but your approach sounds good if I actually have to do some work on the tools.

[mattlazycat.livejournal.com]

If you're using windows, then Microsoft's Command Line Transformation Utility used with Tidy (link in the previous comment) should do pretty much what you wanted to. Easier than coding PHP anyway :)

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Sounds good! Thanks!