Any utilities to remove the ALL the Microsoft formatting tags?

[Matt Probert]

No, it sends a user-agent of "Lynx/{VERSION}" where {VERSION} is the
version being used. Possible reasons for it not showing up in your logs:

- you are only looking at logs of some image hit counter (Lynx doesn't
dipslay inline images) instead of logs of the page itself; or

- possibly there was some kind of caching going on and I was
seeing a cached version of your page. (Although I don't think I'm
behind a cache.)

You *probably* are behind a cache, though not directly. Many many
enroute ISPs cache pages.

Matt

 

[William Tasso]

You *probably* are behind a cache, though not directly. Many many
enroute ISPs cache pages.

so do well configured web servers.

 

[Shiperton Henethe]

You *probably* are behind a cache, though not directly. Many many
enroute ISPs cache pages.

FWIW, Opera 7.11 was 6 visits last month that's less than 0.01%

Ship

 

[Shiperton Henethe]

Sorry I dont really have time/energy to learn about writing macros...
Someday.

Re open office. It's worth a thought though I dont really have
the luxury of being a few years behind excel as a point of
principle - just because I hate M$!

Strangely enough "Detagger" has done the job remarkably well.
I have, however, been in touch with the author (who is
extremely obliguing) and he is ironing out a couple
irritating (though not mission-critical) bugs. Should
be red-hot when finished. But I am a harsh critic so we'll see...
I'll keep you guys posted on this.


Ship

Hi Ship,
I don't understand not wanting to try a free macro that you run from
Excel so you never have the extra code to begin with. You said
you wanted simple code which you are not likely to
get out of by generating everything and then trying to strip it out.

But here is another free option. Open Office is fairly
much compatible with Excel 2000 no macros. They you have
no complaints about about anybody gouging you, you can just
use the free OpenOffice and be just a few years behind Excel. .

download OpenOffice from http://www.openoffice.org«[49MB],
and Java from http://www.sun.com [9MB] both are free.

you can create HTML from OpenOffice
http://tools.openoffice.org/qa/assertions/file/sav_WebP.html

b) Eventually I managed to re-find "DETAGGER", from jafsoft.com
I think, which seems to strip out almost all the MS crud admirably.
$20 USD is at the upper limit of what I'm prepared to pay
for a Microsoft drop-off (scam?)

Ship

 

[J.S. Ferguson]

Hi

Know any good utilities to help me strip out the tags that
Microsoft Excel 2002 leaved behind when you try
and export an HTML format file?

This is driving me NUTS.
And really makes me hate microsoft with a passion.

Good

I literally just want "compact HTML" - ie just the data,
plus the minimal table structure
and *NO FORMATTING CODES* of any sort!!

I did have a utility but it was on my previous PC
and I cant remember what it was called.

I would be prepared to pay no more than say GBP 10.00
for such a utility (which I only need every couple of months...)

Perhaps jedit http://jedit.org/ with the jtidy and xml plugins would do the trick?