Clean XHTML of shooting ranges data


My goal is to upload a comprehensive list of shooting ranges to Google Maps (see prior posting).

Why? I just think it would be cool to visualize places to shoot in Michigan.

Plus, once they are in there, I can see next steps, like creating a custom map of just the ranges that host matches for the Central Michigan Rifle and Pistol League shoots.

So, to accomplish this, here are the steps I’ve thought of.

  1. Clean the source code from the NRA page of ranges in Michigan into a valid codebase that can be more easily parsed
  2. Create a prototype of the form that data needs to take to be uploaded to a Google Map (looks like a KML file will do)
  3. Write an XSL document to use to transform the cleaned code (#1) to match the structure for the KML doc (#2)
  4. Run the XSL tranformation and then upload the resulting KML document to Google Maps

Just for the record, here’s the cleaned source code (#1): 2007.12.16-shooting-ranges.html

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