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  1. @invalid-email-address Anonymous revised this gist Jul 3, 2009. 1 changed file with 2 additions and 1 deletion.
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    #
    # This function takes messy Word HTML pasted into a WYSIWYG and cleans it up
    # It leaves the tags and attributes specified in the params
    #
    # Copyright (c) 2009, Radio New Zealand
    # Released under the MIT license

    require 'rubygems'
    require 'sanitize'
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    #
    # This function takes messy Word HTML pasted into a WYSIWYG and cleans it up
    # It leaves the tags and attributes specified in the params
    #

    require 'rubygems'
    require 'sanitize'

    def clean_up_word_html(html, elements = ['p', 'b', 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6'], attributes={})

    email_regex = /<p>Email:\s+((\w|\-|\_|\.)+\@((\w|\-|\_)+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,})/i

    html.gsub! /[\n|\r]/ , ''

    # keep only the things we want.
    html = Sanitize.clean( html, :elements => elements, :attributes => attributes )

    # butt up any tags
    html.gsub! /&nbsp;/ , ' '
    html.gsub! />\s+</ , '><'

    #remove email address lines
    html.gsub! email_regex , '<p>'

    # post sanitize cleanup of empty blocks
    # the order of removal is import - this is the way word stacks these elements
    html.gsub! /<i><\/i>/ , ''
    html.gsub! /<b><\/b>/ , ''
    html.gsub! /<\/b><b>/ , ''
    html.gsub! /<p><\/p>/ , ''
    html.gsub! /<p><b><\/b><\/p>/ , ''

    # misc - fix butted times
    html.gsub! /(\d)am / , '\1 am '
    html.gsub! /(\d)pm / , '\1 pm '
    # misc - remove multiple space that may cause doc specific regexs to fail (in dates for example)
    html.gsub! /\s+/ , ' '

    # add new lines at the end of lines
    html.gsub! /<\/(p|h\d|dt|dd|dl)>/, '</\1>' + "\n"
    html.gsub! /<dl>/ , '<dl>' + "\n"

    html
    end