Demoronizer, tidy, and various other aps have been discussed here.

Scott7477 is just beginning work on a tut on this general topic (and I'm allegedly helping, though in fact, planetscape has -- IMO -- done most of that by pulling together a formidable collection of refs, cites, etc.) while I may be of little value other than word-butchery.

GrandFather has posted a WYSIWYG editor in CUFP which may be relevant and helpful. I could undoubtedly name many other relevant resources...

BUT...

Were I in your shoes, I would not allow "cut&pasting" of M$word (so-called) .html under any circumstances... for the very good reasons you outline... and
perhaps even more important, would not allow use of any other than a very small subset of html tags for a whole range of taste-, security- and simplicity-reasons and just plain "old-fogey-ism."

On the other hand, the Monastery does provide minimally restrictive methods for a visitor to write some .html. Have you explored those methods?

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by planetscape (Chancellor) on Jun 09, 2006 at 02:54 UTC

FWIW, my collection of links etc. may be found at the top of planetscape's extra scratchpad.

HTH,

Update 2006-06-10: Or, better, inline here, in case I later forget and delete/move something...

HTML TIDY

Clean up your Web pages with HTML TIDY

HTML Tidy Library Project

Charlie's Tidy Add-ons, including a Perl Wrapper

HTML tidy, using XML::LibXML

Demoronizer

Demoronizer - A perl script to sanitize Microsoft's HTML

Demoronizer - Correct Moronic Microsoft HTML

Word HTML 2 Formatting Objects

WH2FO is a Java application that processes an HTML output, created with Word 2000, and transforms it into an XML content file and an XSL stylesheet file. From these files, a standard XSLT processor may be used to obtain a file containing only XSL-FO markup. You can also apply a stylesheet that converts the XML back into HTML discarding all the extra markup added by Word. Using an XSL-FO renderer, such as FOP, you can also render your document into PDF.

PMEdit

GrandFather's PerlMonks Editor - on CPAN: PMEdit-001.000104-1.pl

Miscellaneous

HTML::Parser has several example programs, such as hstrip.pl which might be helpful

OpenOffice.org - free office suite and MSOffice alternative

Use OpenOffice to save in HTML format. OpenOffice creates much cleaner HTML, and the resulting file may still be run through HTML Tidy or a script such as hstrip.pl.

Word Processor Filters

gxml2html

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Re: Simplify HTML programatically

BUT...

HTML TIDY

Demoronizer

PMEdit

Miscellaneous