Optimization of HTML Automatically Generated by WYSIWYG Programs

摘要

Automatically generated HTML, as produced by WYSIWYG programs, typically contains much repetitive and unnecessary markup. This paper identifies aspects of such HTML that may be altered while leaving a semantically equivalent document, and proposes techniques to achieve optimizing modifications. These techniques include attribute re-arrangement via dynamic programming, the use of style classes, and dead-code removal. These techniques produce documents as small as 33% of original size. The size decreases obtained are still significant when the techniques are used in combination with conventional text-based compression.