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Dear All,
i have a project in which i have to do Proof Reading ,Where my Documents in Html Format which i have to convert into database (MsAcess ) File .so that i can point out when ever user commit mistake Is that possible in java or vb6.0.if it is possible please guide me on that

Thanks In advance,
Vanishree

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by deadly ernest

why do they have to have it as an access file - why not just have you mark the errors with a special marker and then do a 'find' search for the marker - say -*- as a marker. I do a lot of writing and the arrangement I've got with my proof readers are they bold the suspected errors and I just scan the document for the bolded text. Some of the errors are intentional, such as dialect speak in writing etc.

by vanishree1987

Hi,
let me tell u my project is all about finding grammatical errors . This html file runs in 1000 of pages in that case find option will not be helpfull .. those errors are typographical errors..
"for eg:- , or . or would have got missed or james has been typed as JAmes" in such case what can be done.
In short My project should work something like" MS WORD or OUTLOOK EXPRESS" where grammatical mistake are highlighted In red color ..

by deadly ernest

of Firefox already does all that.

A couple of trick questions for you, do you have access to the source material of the files? And are they originally created in another format before being converted to html?

I ask as I don't know of anyone or any system that created lots of, or large, html files from scratch. They're usually created in a program that does have a grammar and spelling checker built in or converted to html from other documents.

I write a lot and write in ODT format ready to provide a print ready pdf file for the printers (already got over a dozen books in print through small printers) and some are also converted to html for display on free story web sites like storiesonline.net - in these cases I convert the ODT file to html and then clean up the code. If the original docs are not html you can run the checks on them and have clean copies ready for the conversion.

Otherwise just run them through on of the many bulletin board type program that allows you to view and work on them like the reply box of this bulletin board where the browser can run it's checkers over the material.

Do you intend to correct as you go, or what. I ask as many programs like Bluefish are created to check web page code also have built in checkers and can be run over the code the same as the checkers in Word, but they have filters to ignore the html tags when they're put in right - the checker notes faulty tags too.

by tony hopkinson

Because it's wildly inefficient.

Why don't you just mark them up, bit of css and some script.

If you want a list of errors, use xslt to extract them from the document, if you give each error tag an id, you can extract that as well, then use it to jump in to the document at the error.

One web page two frames and a bit of script....
All sort of potential for add ons without having to implement umpteen different technologies.

by vanishree1987

As I can't access the source file of that html, now the client is telling that we have to compare the .doc (IN WHICH USER WILL BE TYPING) file with the html file which is created from the database and highlight the error or pick the errors and display it in .xls file.

by deadly ernest

like this is part of a class exercise on use of vba and macros now. It's been a decade since I did this sort of stuff, and I can't remember it all, sorry.

Source code for any html can always be seen by right click on page, select View Source and bingo, there it is.

by tony hopkinson

documents to a presentaion in a different format, and then put the differences in a worksheet.

Who's your client Big Bird?

I'd say f'it and walk, that's a hiding to nothing.

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