Cleaning HTML while migrating - Remove Microsoft HTML

Recently I had to move bunches of tables from an old system to a Drupal site. The table data was heavily infested with the crappy HTML inserted from Microsoft Word.

The MS HTML was 1) Redundant and making the HTML almost 5 times its actual size and 2) Breaking the page HTML on the new system, at times.

Used the htmLawed Library from http://www.bioinformatics.org/phplabware/internal_utilities/htmLawed/in…

Once included, it is as simple as:

<?php
$cleaned_html = htmLawed($dirty_html, $htmlawedsettings);
?>

$htmlawedsettings can carry a multitude of settings as explained in http://www.bioinformatics.org/phplabware/internal_utilities/htmLawed/ht…

However, at a minimum, you can have:

<?php
$htmlawedsettings = array(
    'clean_ms_char' => 2
);
?>

Last but not the least, as the migration script was a Drupal module, include the htmLawed.php file (placed in the same folder as the .module file) like this:

<?php
module_load_include('php', 'your_module_name', 'htmLawed');
?>

There you go. Sparkling clean HTML that is close to being w3c compliant!