RemoveCruft cleans Text Creation Partnership TEI XML files by replacing long "s" characters with regular "s", removing brace-enclosed entities and certain superscripts, splitting ligatures into separate characters, and so on.

Usage:

removecruft outputdirectory superscriptmap.tab input1.xml input2.xml ...

where

• outputdirectory is the output directory containing the resultant XML files.
• superscriptmap.tab is a two-column tab-separated file. The first column contains tokens containing tagged superscript characters. The second column contains replacement tokens with the superscript characters replaced by unicode superscript characters. This file can be empty if replacements are not wanted.
• input*.xml are the input TEI XML files.