Re: html is bogus?


Subject: Re: html is bogus?
From: Jesper Skov (jskov@zoftcorp.adsl.dk)
Date: Sat Jun 09 2001 - 02:27:54 CDT


>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Hettmer <hettmerj@bluemarble.net> writes:

Jim> Sorry, I'm new, so if this is dumb please excuse. I've explored
Jim> the bug list, it's pretty time-consuming for a newbie, and this
Jim> is too trivial to count as a bug. Basically, I made a tiny test

Nothing is too trivial to count as a bug! Also, if not filed as a
bug, the developers are unlikely to fix it!

Jim> html with Netscape composer and tried to load it into Abiword
Jim> (0.7). All I get is "file ... is a bogus document". Hey, I
Jim> dunno, I didn't bogusize it, as far as I am aware. There must be
Jim> something fundamental I don't know. Any suggestions would be
Jim> appreciated. I would like to have a range of utilities that I

That's because Netscape saves HTML and AbiWord only imports XHTML. I
believe there's a script somewhere to make the conversion - I don't
know where, though. Sorry.

Jesper

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