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List:       markdown-discuss
Subject:    Re: back-translation and round-tripping
From:       Milian Wolff <mail () milianw ! de>
Date:       2006-10-18 12:17:09
Message-ID: 200610181417.09671.mail () milianw ! de
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Am Mittwoch, 18. Oktober 2006 02:28 schrieb Bowerbird@aol.com:
> i'll be doing some experiments myself,
> but i thought i'd ask here first about
> back-translation and round-tripping
> with markdown and its xhtml output.
>
> the object is to take markdown output,
> reduce it back to a markdown text-file,
> then regenerate the output again and
> compare it with the "original" output,
> repeating if necessary until there exists
> a pair of files that give perfect agreement.
>
> has anyone done such experiments already?
>
> is aaron's back-translation tool the best one?
>
> >    http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/
>
> anyone know if/when/where it has problems?
>
> thanks in advance...
>
> -bowerbird
>
> p.s.   anyone here have reaction to the
> analysis of markdown from ivan kristic
> for the one-laptop-per-child project?
>
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=users/krstic/docformat;a=blob;h=d191a5a9f8be
>b6a052b5e8d30f7a4da99f67a07a;hb=a811c70ced7a02adfc35f66453c7548f8095af6f;f=d
> ocument-format.txt

I ported html2text to PHP and did some improvements myself:

http://milianw.de/projects/html2text/

I have not looked into it for quite a while now, but I think I'll hunt those 
bugs down in the future.

Take a look there, I achive pretty good results.

-- 
Milian Wolff
http://milianw.de

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