ignore Microsoft XML tags

[avirr]

Title
ignore Microsoft XML tags

Short, concise description of the idea
Microsoft puts junk into their text that people paste into their LJs. The LJ html parser could just hide them so we'd never have to see them again.

Full description of the idea
example: (taken from source view of problem post)
An ordered list of benefits

• Extend standard HTML

Comments

[darsant]

I vote no.

Why is the user getting this unless they are posting a web page made in word, and then, why are they doing it?

Copy paste on most things will never cause this to be inserted.

[avirr]

I think they may be pasting files saved as HTML. But they're non-techy people and it's hard for them to understand what they're doing wrong. I'd like LJ to just cope.

[darsant]

That poses issues within itself. No one should be posting pure saved / outputted from Word to HTML files.

A. It's including alot of unnecessary stuff (like that XML, as well as HTML, HEAD, and possibly table data.

B. It's only bound to screw up their layouts, and cause them to call for help because they don't know what they did. Rather than work around this one XML tag and help encourage this behaviour, I'd rather they don't use it and learn to use some of the WYSIWYG clients out there.

[imc]

I think the best way to "Stick it to The Man in Redmond" is to puke when you see his stupid XML tags, not to add special processing that makes it look fine - that's just giving in to the man in Redmond.

(Not that I've ever seen what it actually does, because I don't have the sort of friends who do that anyway. (-:)

[avirr]

You're probably right, but I'd rather just not have to see that junk.

My other LJ is my chance to get out of my techno-nerd rut, and I've found some lovely people that way. Elitism can be limiting too ;-)

[jesuscn]

I totally agree. Good observation.

[illyn]

Good idea! I vote «Yes!»

[avirr]

follow-up: there are also truly annoying bits where they try to identify people, places and things, like this:

Belgium

ARGH!!!