how about retaining at least the file name without the leading path?

     my $content = $self->run_ppthtml( $doc->fetch_filename ) || return;
+   $content =~ s,<title>(.+?)/([^<]+)</title>,<title>$2</title>,i;




Nick scribbled on 5/10/05 9:12 AM:
> These two modules create titles inconsistent with the other ones.  This is
> due to the filtering programs using the full path as the title.
> 
> Obviously it would be best to have a "real" document title, but if we
> can't have that I think that it would be better to use only the name of
> the file itself, not the full path.  This way it would be consistent
> between all the modules.
> 
> I see this comment in pp2html.pm so I don't think I'm too off base here:
> 
> Currently produces document titles like /tmp/foo1234.  Need to alter
> to pass actual document title.
> 
> 
> Below are diffs for both modules.  I realize that this isn't best (it
> would be nice to have a "real" title), but I think it is better than it
> was before.
> 
> 
> --- XLtoHTML.pm 2004-10-02 18:09:14.000000000 -0500
> +++ XLtoHTML.pm.patched 2005-05-10 09:08:18.000000000 -0500
> @@ -37,6 +37,9 @@
>      # update the document's content type
>      $doc->set_content_type( 'text/html' );
> 
> +    # remove the full path in the title
> +    $content_ref =~ s/<title>.*<\/title>/<title><\/title>/i;
> +
>      # If filtered must return either a reference to the doc or a pathname.
>      return \$content_ref;
> 
> 
> --- pp2html.pm  2005-03-23 23:55:06.000000000 -0600
> +++ pp2html.pm.patched  2005-05-10 09:08:11.000000000 -0500
> @@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
>     my $content = $self->run_ppthtml( $doc->fetch_filename ) || return;
>     # update the document's content type
>     $doc->set_content_type( 'text/html' );
> +
> +   # remove the full path in the title
> +   $content =~ s/<title>.*<\/title>/<title><\/title>/i;
> +
>     return \$content;
>  }
> 

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