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Cleaning HTML by removing extra/redundant formatti

2019-01-16 18:31发布

问题:

I have been using CKEditor wysiwyg editor for a website where users are allowed to use the HTML editor to add some comments. I ended up having some extremely redundant nested HTML code in my database that is slowing down the viewing/editing of these comments.

I have comments that look like this (this is a very small example. I have comments with over 100 nested tags):

<p>
 <strong>
  <span style="font-size: 14px">
   <span style="color: #006400">
     <span style="font-size: 14px">
      <span style="font-size: 16px">
       <span style="color: #006400">
        <span style="font-size: 14px">
         <span style="font-size: 16px">
          <span style="color: #006400">This is a </span>
         </span>
        </span>
       </span>
      </span>
     </span>
    </span>
    <span style="color: #006400">
     <span style="font-size: 16px">
      <span style="color: #b22222">Test</span>
     </span>
    </span>
   </span>
  </span>
 </strong>
</p>

My questions are:

  • Is there any library/code/software that can do a smart (i.e. format-aware) clean-up of the HTML code, removing all redundant tags that have no effect on the formatting (because they're overridden by inner tags) ? I've tried many existing online solutions (such as HTML Tidy). None of them do what I want.

  • If not, I'll need to write some code for HTML parsing and cleaning. I am planning to use PHP Simple HTML DOM to traverse the HTML tree and find all tags that have no effect. Do you suggest any other HTML parser that is more suitable for my purpose?

Thanks

.

Update:

I have written some code to analyze the HTML code that I have. All the HTML tags that I have are:

  • <span> with styles for font-size and/or color
  • <font> with attributes color and/or size
  • <a> for links (with href)
  • <strong>
  • <p> (single tag to wrap the whole comment)
  • <u>

I can easily write some code to convert the HTML code into bbcode (e.g. [b], [color=blue], [size=3], etc). So I above HTML will become something like:

[b][size=14][color=#006400][size=14][size=16][color=#006400]
[size=14][size=16][color=#006400]This is a [/color][/size]
[/size][/color][/size][/size][color=#006400][size=16]
[color=#b22222]Test[/color][/size][/color][/color][/size][/b]

The question now is: Is there an easy way (algorithm/library/etc) to clean-up the messy (as messy as that original HTML) bbcode that will be generated?

thanks again

回答1:

Introduction

The best solution have seen so far is using HTML Tidy http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

Beyond converting the format of a document, Tidy is also able to convert deprecated HTML tags into their cascading style sheet (CSS) counterparts automatically through the use of the clean option. The generated output contains an inline style declaration.

It also ensures that the HTML document is xhtml compatible

Example

$code ='<p>
 <strong>
  <span style="font-size: 14px">
   <span style="color: #006400">
     <span style="font-size: 14px">
      <span style="font-size: 16px">
       <span style="color: #006400">
        <span style="font-size: 14px">
         <span style="font-size: 16px">
          <span style="color: #006400">This is a </span>
         </span>
        </span>
       </span>
      </span>
     </span>
    </span>
    <span style="color: #006400">
     <span style="font-size: 16px">
      <span style="color: #b22222">Test</span>
     </span>
    </span>
   </span>
  </span>
 </strong>
</p>';

If you RUN

$clean = cleaning($code);
print($clean['body']);

Output

<p>
    <strong>
        <span class="c3">
            <span class="c1">This is a</span> 
                <span class="c2">Test</span>
            </span>
        </strong>
</p>

You can get the CSS

$clean = cleaning($code);
print($clean['style']);

Output

<style type="text/css">
    span.c3 {
        font-size: 14px
    }

    span.c2 {
        color: #006400;
        font-size: 16px
    }

    span.c1 {
        color: #006400;
        font-size: 14px
    }
</style>

Our the FULL HTML

$clean = cleaning($code);
print($clean['full']);

Output

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <title></title>
    <style type="text/css">
/*<![CDATA[*/
    span.c3 {font-size: 14px}
    span.c2 {color: #006400; font-size: 16px}
    span.c1 {color: #006400; font-size: 14px}
    /*]]>*/
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>
      <strong><span class="c3"><span class="c1">This is a</span>
      <span class="c2">Test</span></span></strong>
    </p>
  </body>
</html>

Function Used

function cleaning($string, $tidyConfig = null) {
    $out = array ();
    $config = array (
            'indent' => true,
            'show-body-only' => false,
            'clean' => true,
            'output-xhtml' => true,
            'preserve-entities' => true 
    );
    if ($tidyConfig == null) {
        $tidyConfig = &$config;
    }
    $tidy = new tidy ();
    $out ['full'] = $tidy->repairString ( $string, $tidyConfig, 'UTF8' );
    unset ( $tidy );
    unset ( $tidyConfig );
    $out ['body'] = preg_replace ( "/.*<body[^>]*>|<\/body>.*/si", "", $out ['full'] );
    $out ['style'] = '<style type="text/css">' . preg_replace ( "/.*<style[^>]*>|<\/style>.*/si", "", $out ['full'] ) . '</style>';
    return ($out);
}

================================================

Edit 1 : Dirty Hack (Not Recommended)

================================================

Based on your last comment its like you want to retain the depreciate style .. HTML Tidy might not allow you to do that since its depreciated but you can do this

$out = cleaning ( $code );
$getStyle = new css2string ();
$getStyle->parseStr ( $out ['style'] );
$body = $out ['body'];
$search = array ();
$replace = array ();

foreach ( $getStyle->css as $key => $value ) {
    list ( $selector, $name ) = explode ( ".", $key );
    $search [] = "<$selector class=\"$name\">";
    $style = array ();
    foreach ( $value as $type => $att ) {
        $style [] = "$type:$att";
    }
    $replace [] = "<$selector style=\"" . implode ( ";", $style ) . ";\">";
}

Output

<p>
  <strong>
      <span style="font-size:14px;">
        <span style="color:#006400;font-size:14px;">This is a</span>
        <span style="color:#006400;font-size:16px;">Test</span>
        </span>
  </strong>
</p>

Class Used

//Credit : http://stackoverflow.com/a/8511837/1226894
class css2string {
var $css;

function parseStr($string) {
    preg_match_all ( '/(?ims)([a-z0-9, \s\.\:#_\-@]+)\{([^\}]*)\}/', $string, $arr );
    $this->css = array ();
    foreach ( $arr [0] as $i => $x ) {
        $selector = trim ( $arr [1] [$i] );
        $rules = explode ( ';', trim ( $arr [2] [$i] ) );
        $this->css [$selector] = array ();
        foreach ( $rules as $strRule ) {
            if (! empty ( $strRule )) {
                $rule = explode ( ":", $strRule );
                $this->css [$selector] [trim ( $rule [0] )] = trim ( $rule [1] );
            }
        }
    }
}

function arrayImplode($glue, $separator, $array) {
    if (! is_array ( $array ))
        return $array;
    $styleString = array ();
    foreach ( $array as $key => $val ) {
        if (is_array ( $val ))
            $val = implode ( ',', $val );
        $styleString [] = "{$key}{$glue}{$val}";

    }
    return implode ( $separator, $styleString );
}

function getSelector($selectorName) {
    return $this->arrayImplode ( ":", ";", $this->css [$selectorName] );
}

}


回答2:

You should look into HTMLPurifier, it's a great tool for parsing HTML and removing unnecessary and unsafe content from it. Look into the removing empty spans configs and stuff. It can be a bit of a beast to configure I admit, but that's only because it's so versatile.

It's also quite heavy, so you'd want to save the output of it the database (As opposed to reading the raw from the database and then parsing it with purifier every time.



回答3:

Here is a solution that uses the browser to get the nested element's properties. No need to cascade the properties up, since the css computed styles is ready to read from the browser.

Here is an example: http://jsfiddle.net/mmeah/fUpe8/3/

var fixedCode = readNestProp($("#redo"));
$("#simp").html( fixedCode );

function readNestProp(el){
 var output = "";
 $(el).children().each( function(){
    if($(this).children().length==0){
        var _that=this;
        var _cssAttributeNames = ["font-size","color"];
        var _tag = $(_that).prop("nodeName").toLowerCase();
        var _text = $(_that).text();
        var _style = "";
        $.each(_cssAttributeNames, function(_index,_value){
            var css_value = $(_that).css(_value);
            if(typeof css_value!= "undefined"){
                _style += _value + ":";
                _style += css_value + ";";
            }
        });
        output += "<"+_tag+" style='"+_style+"'>"+_text+"</"+_tag+">";
    }else if(
        $(this).prop("nodeName").toLowerCase() !=
        $(this).find(">:first-child").prop("nodeName").toLowerCase()
    ){
        var _tag = $(this).prop("nodeName").toLowerCase();
        output += "<"+_tag+">" + readNestProp(this) + "</"+_tag+">";
    }else{
        output += readNestProp(this);
    };
 });
 return output;
}

A better solution to typing in all possible css attributes like:
var _cssAttributeNames = ["font-size","color"];
Is to use a solution like mentioned here: Can jQuery get all CSS styles associated with an element?



回答4:

I don't have time to finish this... maybe someone else can help. This javascript removes exact duplicate tags and disallowed tags too...

There are a few problems/things to be done,
1) regenerated tags need to be closed
2) it will only remove a tag if the tag-name & attributes are identical to another within that nodes children, so its not 'smart' enough to remove all unnecessary tags.
3) it will look through the allowed CSS variables and extract ALL those values from an element, and then write it to the output HTML, so for example:

var allowed_css = ["color","font-size"];
<span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #123123">

Will be translated into:

<span style="color:#000000;font-size:12px;"> <!-- inherited colour from parent -->
<span style="color:#123123;font-size:12px;"> <!-- inherited font-size from parent -->

Code:

<html>

<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
var allowed_css = ["font-size", "color"];
var allowed_tags = ["p","strong","span","br","b"];
function initialise() {
    var comment = document.getElementById("comment");
    var commentHTML = document.getElementById("commentHTML");
    var output = document.getElementById("output");
    var outputHTML = document.getElementById("outputHTML");
    print(commentHTML, comment.innerHTML, false);
    var out = getNodes(comment);
    print(output, out, true);
    print(outputHTML, out, false);
}
function print(out, stringCode, allowHTML) {
    out.innerHTML = allowHTML? stringCode : getHTMLCode(stringCode);
}
function getHTMLCode(stringCode) {
    return "<code>"+((stringCode).replace(/</g,"&lt;")).replace(/>/g,"&gt;")+"</code>";
}
function getNodes(elem) {
    var output = "";
    var nodesArr = new Array(elem.childNodes.length);
    for (var i=0; i<nodesArr.length; i++) {
        nodesArr[i] = new Array();
        nodesArr[i].push(elem.childNodes[i]);
        getChildNodes(elem.childNodes[i], nodesArr[i]);
        nodesArr[i] = removeDuplicates(nodesArr[i]);
        output += nodesArr[i].join("");
    }
    return output;
}
function removeDuplicates(arrayName) {
    var newArray = new Array();
    label:
    for (var i=0; i<arrayName.length; i++) {  
        for (var j=0; j<newArray.length; j++) {
            if(newArray[j]==arrayName[i])
                continue label;
        }
        newArray[newArray.length] = arrayName[i];
    }
    return newArray;
}
function getChildNodes(elemParent, nodesArr) {
    var children = elemParent.childNodes;
    for (var i=0; i<children.length; i++) {
        nodesArr.push(children[i]);
        if (children[i].hasChildNodes())
            getChildNodes(children[i], nodesArr);
    }
    return cleanHTML(nodesArr);
}
function cleanHTML(arr) {
    for (var i=0; i<arr.length; i++) {
        var elem = arr[i];
        if (elem.nodeType == 1) {
            if (tagNotAllowed(elem.nodeName)) {
                arr.splice(i,1);
                i--;
                continue;
            }
            elem = "<"+elem.nodeName+ getAttributes(elem) +">";
        }
        else if (elem.nodeType == 3) {
            elem = elem.nodeValue;
        }
        arr[i] = elem;
    }
    return arr;
}
function tagNotAllowed(tagName) {
    var allowed = " "+allowed_tags.join(" ").toUpperCase()+" ";
    if (allowed.search(" "+tagName.toUpperCase()+" ") == -1)
        return true;
    else
        return false;
}
function getAttributes(elem) {
    var attributes = "";
    for (var i=0; i<elem.attributes.length; i++) {
      var attrib = elem.attributes[i];
      if (attrib.specified == true) {
        if (attrib.name == "style") {
            attributes += " style=\""+getCSS(elem)+"\"";
        } else {
            attributes += " "+attrib.name+"=\""+attrib.value+"\"";
        }
      }
    }
    return attributes
}
function getCSS(elem) {
    var style="";
    if (elem.currentStyle) {
        for (var i=0; i<allowed_css.length; i++) {
            var styleProp = allowed_css[i];
            style += styleProp+":"+elem.currentStyle[styleProp]+";";
        }
    } else if (window.getComputedStyle) {
        for (var i=0; i<allowed_css.length; i++) {
            var styleProp = allowed_css[i];
            style += styleProp+":"+document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(elem,null).getPropertyValue(styleProp)+";";
        }
    }
    return style;
}
</script>
</head>

<body onload="initialise()">

<div style="float: left; width: 300px;">
<h2>Input</h2>
<div id="comment">
<p> 
 <strong> 
  <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
   <span style="color: #006400"> 
     <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
      <span style="font-size: 16px"> 
       <span style="color: #006400"> 
        <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
         <span style="font-size: 16px"> 
          <span style="color: #006400">This is a </span> 
         </span> 
        </span> 
       </span> 
      </span> 
     </span> 
    </span> 
    <span style="color: #006400"> 
     <span style="font-size: 16px"> 
      <span style="color: #b22222"><b>Test</b></span> 
     </span> 
    </span> 
   </span> 
  </span> 
 </strong> 
</p> 
<p>Second paragraph.
<span style="color: #006400">This is a span</span></p>
</div>
<h3>HTML code:</h3>
<div id="commentHTML"> </div>
</div>

<div style="float: left; width: 300px;">
<h2>Output</h2>
<div id="output"> </div>
<h3>HTML code:</h3>
<div id="outputHTML"> </div>
</div>

<div style="float: left; width: 300px;">
<h2>Tasks</h2>
<big>
<ul>
<li>Close Tags</li>
<li>Ignore inherited CSS style in method getCSS(elem)</li>
<li>Test with different input HTML</li>
</ul>
</big>
</div>

</body>

</html>


回答5:

It may not exactly address your exact problem, but what I would have done in your place is to simply eliminate all HTML tags completely, retain only pain text and line breaks.

After that was done, switch to markdown our bbcode to format your comments better. A WYSIWYG is rarely useful.

The reason forthat is because you said that all you had in the comments is presentational data, which frankly, isn't that much important.



回答6:

Cleanup HTML collapses tags which seems to be what you are asking for. However, it creates a validated HTML document with CSS moved to inline styles. Many other HTML formatters won't do this because it changes the structure of the HTML document.



回答7:

I remember that Adobe (Macromedia) Dreamweaver, at least slightly old versions had an option, 'Clean up HTML', and also a 'Clean up word html' to remove redundant tags etc from any webpage.



回答8:

I know you're looking for an HTML DOM cleanser, but maybe js can help?

function getSpans(){ 
var spans=document.getElementsByTagName('span') 
    for (var i=0;i<spans.length;i++){ 
    spans[i].removeNode(true);
        if(i == spans.length) {
        //add the styling you want here
        }
    } 
} 


回答9:

Rather than waste your precious server time parsing bad HTML I would suggest you fix the root of the problem instead.

A simple solution would be to limit the characters each commentor could make to include the entire html char count as opposed to just the text count (at least that would stop infinately-large nested tags).

You could improve on that by allowing the user to switch between HTML-view and text-view - I'm sure most people would see a load of junk when in the HTML view and simply CTRL+A & DEL it.

I think it would be best if you had your own formatting chars you would parse and replace with the formatting i.e. like stack-overflow has **bold text**, visible to the poster. Or just BB-code would do, visibile to the poster.



回答10:

Try not to parse the HTML with DOM but maybe with SAX (http://www.brainbell.com/tutorials/php/Parsing_XML_With_SAX.htm)

SAX parses a document from the beginning and sends events like 'start of element' and 'end of 'element' to call the callback functions you define

Then you can build a kind of stack for all events If you have text, you could save the effect of your stack on that text.

After that you process the stack to build up new HTML with only the effect you want.



回答11:

If you want to use jQuery, try this:

<p>
<strong>
  <span style="font-size: 14px">
   <span style="color: #006400">
     <span style="font-size: 14px">
      <span style="font-size: 16px">
       <span style="color: #006400">
        <span style="font-size: 14px">
         <span style="font-size: 16px">
          <span style="color: #006400">This is a </span>
         </span>
        </span>
       </span>
      </span>
     </span>
    </span>
    <span style="color: #006400">
     <span style="font-size: 16px">
      <span style="color: #b22222">Test</span>
     </span>
    </span>
   </span>
  </span>
 </strong>
</p>
<br><br>
<div id="out"></div> <!-- Just to print it out -->


$("span").each(function(i){
    var ntext = $(this).text();
    ntext = $.trim(ntext.replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm," "));
    if(i==0){
        $("#out").text(ntext);
    }        
});

You get this as a result:

<div id="out">This is a                                                                    Test</div>

You could then format it anyway you want. Hope that helps you think a little differently about it...