davidson wrote: >> How can I generate a rss.xml from a bunch of HTML files? >> >> Tho one would think this to be quite a simple tool of >> parsing the HTML and outputting the RSS XML dialect, >> I can't find any tool... > > XSLT is a language that is sort of made for describing this > kind of transformation. > > My degree of XSLT-clue is quite low, but occasionally I find > a small project pitched to my rudimentary ability, and try > to level up a little. > > Whenever I do that, I find this debian package useful: > > xsltproc - XSLT 1.0 command line processor > XSLT is an XML language for defining transformations of XML files from > XML to some other arbitrary format, such as XML, HTML, plain text, etc. > using standard XSLT version 1.0 stylesheets. > . > This package contains a command line tool that facilitates XSLT > transformations. > Homepage: http://xmlsoft.org/xslt/
Right, something like that! > Sometimes I need this one too, to tweak HTML into something xsltproc > can deal with: > > tidy - HTML/XML syntax checker and reformatter > Tidy corrects and cleans up HTML and XML documents by fixing > markup errors and upgrading legacy code to modern standards. > . > This package contains a command line tool 'tidy'. > Homepage: http://www.html-tidy.org/ Yep, I know that, good tool. > It sounds to me like you want to make a script that calls > xsltproc to apply some XSLT transformation of your own > devising. I think if I were in your place, I would study > a few examples like this simple one... But the transformation should actually not be my personal devising, it should be the HTML definition and how that translates to RSS... > "The XSLT used by html2rss-web" > html2rss-web/rss.xsl at master · gildesmarais/html2rss-web · GitHub > > https://github.com/gildesmarais/html2rss-web/blob/master/public/rss.xsl#start-of-content Yeah... but what tool is that? I'll check it out, for sure. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal
