Text to HTML algorithm.

Martin v. Loewis martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Mar 27 15:03:14 EST 2002


Gustavo Cordova <gcordova at hebmex.com> writes:

> Does anybody have an implementation, or know of one,
> to format plain text into HTML?

Sure. If it does not contain markup,

print "<html><body><pre>%s</pre></body></html>" % plaintext

will fulfill this requirement.

> I need to preserve a minimum of structure, such as
> wrapping <p>...</p> around paragraphs separated by
> at least one empty line and detecting unnumbered
> lists (at least).

If you think you need a pre-existing library, you may want to try
HTMLGen. It knows much about HTML, but little about plain text.

Regards,
Martin




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