[COCOON3-5] Add an HTML2XHTML converter as Starter

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha-2
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha-2
• Component/s: cocoon-optional
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Simone Tripodi
• Created: 14/Oct/08 13:51
• Updated: 16/Feb/11 13:58
• Resolved: 17/Oct/08 16:06

Description

This starter component for the pipeline is a component that transform an HTML content, taken by the specified URL, and transform it in XHTML or, at least, a well-formed XML document.
So now the original document can be processed in the pipeline in various ways:
 * following links;
 * implementing crwalers;
 * easy transforming the original document in other various formats;
 * etc...

I want to explain the need of this component with a testcase; last week I had to face a singular problem, realizing a simple service that takes in input an HTML page's URL, and transform it , through the Optimus' XSLT (http://microformatique.com/optimus - http://code.google.com/p/mf-optimus/source/browse/#svn/trunk/xsl) in an XML document that contains the original doc's Microformats, in an easier and more parsable formats.