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Using HTML Tidy to convert HTML to XHTML

mikeday
If you would like to print web pages and other HTML documents with Prince but find that they are not well-formed XHTML, try using the HTML Tidy utility to convert them to XHTML.

HTML Tidy is a free cross-platform tool (also available as a library) that can be used to tidy up irregular HTML as found on the web into valid HTML or XHTML. This is a handy way of converting old websites into a form that Prince can then print. Here is an example:

$ tidy -asxhtml -doctype loose messy.html > clean.xhtml
...
$ prince clean.xhtml