Hi Folks,
At the bottom of this message I show HTML that was produced by an Outlook email message (a “Hello, world” email message). The HTML has some interesting features. For example, it has a comment containing namespace-qualified elements and
attributes:
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout
v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap
v:ext="edit"
data="" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
The v namespace prefix is used only in that comment and nowhere else. I have tried a couple tools that convert HTML to XHTML and apparently they don’t look inside the comment because they remove the namespace declaration:
<html
xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"
xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
I want to import the XHTML back into Outlook, but unfortunately after removing namespace declarations the XHTML is not valid as far as Outlook is concerned.
Is there a tool that can convert the HTML generated by Outlook to XHTML, such that the XHTML can be reimported into Outlook?
If no such tool exists, I will create my own tool. Would XSLT be suitable for such a task? /Roger
<html
xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"
xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<META
HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type"
CONTENT="text/html;
charset=us-ascii">
<meta
name=Generator
content="Microsoft
Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria
Math";
panose-1:2
4
5
3
5
4
6
3
2
4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2
15
5
2
2
2
4
3
2
4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal,
li.MsoNormal,
div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
a:link,
span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited,
span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#954F72;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
@page
WordSection1
{size:8.5in
11.0in;
margin:1.0in
1.0in
1.0in
1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if
gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body
lang=EN-US
link="#0563C1"
vlink="#954F72"><div
class=WordSection1><p
class=MsoNormal>Hello,
world<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>
