Compactor 3.9 build: 9639 released: 2014-07-26 compiled with: Java 1.8.0_131 Jet jet12.0-pro-x86/1.8.0_131

Compacts HTML removing excess whitespace for faster transmission..

Copyright: (c) 2006-2017 Canadian Mind Products.

Java application.
Download from: http://mindprod.com/products1.html#COMPACTOR

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Notes:

You must install the Java JRE to use this program.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss/jre.html

This program can only be used from the command prompt, (or via an command
line style icon shortcut) e.g. under Windows command.exe or JPSoft
tcmd.exe, formerly called the DOS box. Just clicking the programs in a
directory listing will not do anything useful. Just typing the program
names at the command prompt will not either.

This program requires a manual install! See below.

This program works with vanilla text files, (e.g. ASCII files or UTF-8
Unicode files). You will need a text editor to create and view them, not a word
processor. e.g. notepad, Visual Slick Edit or other suitable text editor
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/editor.html. You must use a monospaced font
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/monospacedfonts.html (aka fixed pitch, aka
programmer font) to view your files, or they won't look properly aligned.

I put out an avalanche of free software into the world, and submit PAD
files to hundreds of distribution sites, but I rarely hear back from
anyone.  What's happening?  Does it all just work fine?  It is so
complicated nobody can figure out how to use it and they give up on it?
It is it useful?  Since everyone has the source, do people just fix the
programs to their liking themselves?  Did you have trouble installing?  Do
I presume you know too much?  I would be happy to hear from you about your
experiences, positive or negative and your requests for improvements.  A
one-line email to roedy@mindprod.com would be great.

===> Free <===
Full source included.
You may even include the source code, modified or unmodified
in free/commercial open source/proprietary programs that you write and distribute.
May be used freely for any purpose but military.
For more details on this restriction, see
http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html
If you include any Canadian Mind Products code in your own applications,
your app too must be labelled non-military use only.
http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html
All Java jars and source code are included. If you need the class files or Javadoc, you will have to build them yourself. To streamline the zip downloads, class files and Javadoc have been removed.

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Prerequisites:

This program runs under any OS that supports Java,
(e.g.W2K/XP/W2003/Vista/W2008/W7-32/W7-64/W8-32/W8-64/Linux/LinuxARM/LinuxX86
/LinuxX64/Ubuntu/Solaris/SolarisSPARC/SolarisSPARC64/SolarisX86/SolarisX64/OSX/AIX...)
so long as you have
<><> Java version 1.8 <><> or later installed (32-bit or 64-bit Java).
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html for details.

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Installing on a PC:

Download source and compiled jar files to run on your own machine as an application.
First install a recent Java JDK or JVM.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html.
To install, extract the zip download with WinZip
(or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please,
often J:\ --  ticking off the <span class="click">use folder names</span> option.
To run as an application, type:
java.exe %JAVA_OPTIONS -ea -jar J:\com\mindprod\compactor\compactor.jar {put any parms here}

adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.

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Installing on a MacIntosh:

Use Safari to download source and compiled jar files to run on your own machine as an application.
Safari will automatically unpack the zip into ~/Downloads (version 10.5)
[or on the Desktop (version 10.4 and earlier)].
First install a recent Java JDK or JVM.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html.
You may optionally move the download tree to a permanent home.
I don't have a MacIntosh, just a PC, so I can't test my Java programs for Mac compatibility.
In theory they should work without problems, but in practice that does not always happen.
If you have problems please, let me know, preferably with screenshots and complete verbatim error messages.
To run as an application, without parameters, just double click the jar file.

To run as an application with parameters, in bash shell type:
open Terminal.app
cd ~/Desktop
java.exe -ea -jar com/mindprod/compactor/compactor.jar {put any parms here}

adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.

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Rebuilding:

The zip already contains the necessary jar files, so unless you modify
the program, there is no need to recompile the source or rebuild the jar.
Configure.java basedir="E:/" in rebuild.xml to the drive where your files are.
Use ANT and rebuild.xml, not build.xml, to recompile and recreate the jar.

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Use:

Compacts HTML so that web pages are 20% smaller and hence
20% faster. It does this by removing all unnecessary white
space.  To fluff files up again, I suggest using SlickEdit
beautify. The file will render on browsers exactly as they
did before. Any <pre> sections are left intact. No comments
are removed. See http://mindprod.com/projects/compactor.html
for how it works.
NOTE THE COMPACTOR JUST COMPACTS YOUR HTML. IT DOES NOT
FLUFF UP AGAIN.
To install, Extract the zip download with WinZip, available from
http://www.winzip.com (or similar unzip utility) into any
directory you please, often C:\ -- ticking off the "user
folder names" option. To run as an application, type:
java.exe -jar C:\com\mindprod\compactor\compactor.jar x.html y.html
adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.
Put files and directories on command line you want to
compact. -s means recursively include all subdirectories for
everything to the right of -s.
You can also embed it in your own programs, by calling the
Compactor.compactString or Compactor.compactFile methods
like this:
import  com.mindprod.compactor;
...
Compactor compactor = new Compactor();
compactor.compactFile( true, new File("x.html") );
String result = compactor.compactString( big, "from file x.html" );


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Version History:

 2.2 2006-03-15 Suppress IntelliJ Code Analyse that wants to make this default scope.

 2.3 2008-02-15 complete rewrite, mainly to handle removing space around <dt> <li> <h?> and <td> tags.

 2.4 2008-02-15 add more tags that get trimmed. Charge $10

 2.5 2008-02-28 tighter removal of whitespace surrounding comments.

 2.6 2008-02-28 optionally allow comments to be stripped out
                entirely. Preserve some space around configurable magic
                macro comments that expand into text such as <!# SSI or
                <!-- macro.

 2.7 2008-07-27 remove all space just before > in a tag. < space will convert to &lt; space.

 2.8 2009-04-04 no longer correct missing entities. Just issue warning messages.

 2.9 2010-01-18 refactor so you first allocate a Compactor object, permitting simultaneous compactings.

 3.0 2010-02-12 trim space inside <p>..</p>.

 3.1 2010-12-21 avoid touching JavaScript and other scripts.

 3.2 2010-12-24 handle <script and <?

 3.3 2011-11-15 add compactStringAsNeeded

 3.4 2012-06-18 no longer strip \n in front of <script

 3.5 2012-10-27 show more context where there is an error.

 3.6 2013-03-01 no longer complain about unescaped " in text.

 3.7 2014-04-21 now allow *.htmlfrag files.

 3.8 2014-06-11 add HTML5 tags. Simplify tag categorisation code.

 3.9 2014-07-26 internal simplication. Now preserves space both before and after comment which may be significant.
                Now always compact space inside comments, even macro comments.

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