back-translation and round-tripping

[Milian Wolff]

Am Mittwoch, 18. Oktober 2006 02:28 schrieb Bowerbird at aol.com:

> i'll be doing some experiments myself,

> but i thought i'd ask here first about

> back-translation and round-tripping

> with markdown and its xhtml output.

>

> the object is to take markdown output,

> reduce it back to a markdown text-file,

> then regenerate the output again and

> compare it with the "original" output,

> repeating if necessary until there exists

> a pair of files that give perfect agreement.

>

> has anyone done such experiments already?

>

> is aaron's back-translation tool the best one?

>

> >    http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/

>

> anyone know if/when/where it has problems?

>

> thanks in advance...

>

> -bowerbird

>

> p.s.   anyone here have reaction to the

> analysis of markdown from ivan kristic

> for the one-laptop-per-child project?

>

>

> http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=users/krstic/docformat;a=blob;h=d191a5a9f8be

>b6a052b5e8d30f7a4da99f67a07a;hb=a811c70ced7a02adfc35f66453c7548f8095af6f;f=d

> ocument-format.txt


I ported html2text to PHP and did some improvements myself:

http://milianw.de/projects/html2text/

I have not looked into it for quite a while now, but I think I'll hunt those 
bugs down in the future.

Take a look there, I achive pretty good results.

-- 
Milian Wolff
http://milianw.de