diff --git a/class-stringer.php b/class-stringer.php
index 49417c1..34ed6e8 100644
--- a/class-stringer.php
+++ b/class-stringer.php
@@ -14,17 +14,81 @@
 
 class Stringer {
 
+	private $notNeededTags = [];
 
 	function __construct() {
 		if ( ! function_exists( 'str_get_html' ) ) {
 			require_once 'simple_html_dom.php';
 		}
+		$this->setUpNotNeeded();
+	}
+
+	function get_strings( $block ) {
+		$html = str_get_html( $block['innerHTML'] );
+		// print_r( $html );
+		//$html->dump();
+		//foreach ( $html->root->children as $node ) {
+		//print_r( $node );
+		$this->recurse( $html->root );
+	}
+
+	function setUpNotNeeded() {
+		$notNeededTags = [ 'ul', 'ol'];
+		$this->notNeededTags  = array_flip( $notNeededTags );
+	}
+
+	function isInnertextNeeded( $tag ) {
+		if ( isset( $this->notNeededTags[$tag ] ) ) {
+			return false;
+		}
+		return true;
 
 	}
 
-	function get_strings( $content ) {
-		$html = str_get_html( $content );
-		print_r( $html );
+	function recurse( $node ) {
+		static $nest = 0;
+		$nest++;
+
+		echo PHP_EOL;
+		echo str_repeat( '  ', $nest);
+		echo $node->tag;
+		echo ' ';
+		echo $node->nodetype;
+		echo ' ';
+
+		if ( $node->nodetype !== HDOM_TYPE_ROOT) {
+			if ( $this->isInnertextNeeded( $node->tag )) {
+				$text=$node->innertext();
+				$text=trim( $text );
+				echo $text;
+			}
+		}
+		echo implode( ' ', $node->getAllAttributes() );
+
+		if ( count( $node->children ) ) {
+			foreach ( $node->children as $child ) {
+				$this->recurse( $child );
+			}
+		}
+
+
+		//echo $node->innertext();
+
+		//print_r(  $node->_ );
+
+
+			//$node->dump( $node );
+			//echo $node->text();
+			//echo $node->__tostring();
+			//if( isset( $node->text )) {
+			//echo "IT:";
+			//echo $node->innertext();
+			//echo ":TI";
+			//echo $node->text();
+
+
+		$nest--;
+		echo PHP_EOL;
 	}
 
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/html2pot.php b/html2pot.php
index 07cab8a..db4c68c 100644
--- a/html2pot.php
+++ b/html2pot.php
@@ -1,36 +1,55 @@
 <?php
 
-/**
- * Convert .html files to .pot files
+/** @copyright (C) Copyright Bobbing Wide 2020
+ * @package oik-i18n
+                                                   *
+ * oik batch routine to Internationalize / localize HTML templates and template parts
+ *
+ * Syntax:
+ * `
+ * cd [path]/wp-content/plugins/oik-i18n
+ * oikwp html2pot.php type filename.html locale
+ *
+ * where:
+ * type is is template / part
+ * filename.html is the file name
+ * locale is the target locale: en_GB, bb_BB, fr_FR
+ *
+ * Output will be written to a languages folder
  */
 
-$html = file_get_contents( 'test.html');
-//print_r( $html );
+/**
+ * Stage 1. Find all the translatable strings in an .html file
+ * Stage 2. Extract from all the theme's .html files to a .pot file
+ * Stage 3. Translate into local language
+ * Stage 4. Reparse, apply the target language and save in the new locale.
+ *
+ * This is the very beginning of Stage 1.
+ *
+ */
 
-/*
-// Let's grab all image tags from the HTML.
-$dom_doc = new DOMDocument();
+$filename = 'test.html';
 
-// The @ is not enough to suppress errors when dealing with libxml,
-// we have to tell it directly how we want to handle errors.
-libxml_use_internal_errors( true );
-$dom_doc->loadHTML(  );
-libxml_use_internal_errors( false );
+$html = file_get_contents( $filename);
+print_r( $html );
 
-$image_tags = $dom_doc->getElementsByTagName( 'img' );
+if ( 0 === strlen( $html) ) {
+	echo "Invalid file: " . $filename;
 
-// For each image Tag, make sure it can be added to the $images array, and add it.
-foreach ( $image_tags as $image_tag ) {
-	$img_src = $image_tag->getAttribute( 'src' );
+	gob();
+}
 
-	if ( empty( $img_src ) ) {
-		continue;
-	}
-*/
+require_once 'class-stringer.php';
 
+/**
+ * Use Gutenberg to parse the content into individual blocks.
+ * I've got a block recreation routine in oik-clone.
+ */
 $parser = new WP_Block_Parser();
-$blocks = $parser->parse( $html);
-//print_r( $blocks );
+$blocks = $parser->parse( $html );
+
+print_r( $blocks );
+
 $stringer = new Stringer();
 $count = 0;
 foreach ( $blocks as $block) {
@@ -41,93 +60,3 @@
 	//print_r( $block );
 
 }
-
-class Stringer {
-	private $dom_doc = null;
-	function __construct() {
-		$this->dom_doc = new DOMDocument();
-
-	}
-
-	function get_strings( $block ) {
-		//echo $block['innerHTML'];
-		$this->dom_doc->loadHTML( $block['innerHTML']);
-		//print_r( $this->dom_doc );
-		echo $this->dom_doc->textContent;
-		echo PHP_EOL;
-		$this->showDOMNode( $this->dom_doc);
-		echo PHP_EOL;
-		/*
-
-		echo PHP_EOL;
-		if ( $this->dom_doc->hasChildNodes() ) {
-			echo "this has child nodes" . PHP_EOL;
-			foreach ( $this->dom_doc->childNodes as $childNode ) {
-				print_r( $childNode );
-				//gob();
-				//$this->get_child_node_strings( $childNode);
-			}
-
-		}
-		*/
-
-	}
-
-	function showDOMNode(DOMNode $domNode) {
-		static $nested;
-		$nested++;
-        foreach ($domNode->childNodes as $node) {
-
-            //echo PHP_EOL;
-            if ( $node->haschildNodes() ) {
-	            echo PHP_EOL;
-	            echo str_repeat( '   ', $nested );
-	            echo 'PN:' . $node->nodeName . ': ';
-	            echo 'PT:' . $node->nodeType;
-                $this->showDOMNode( $node );
-
-            } else {
-            	$value = trim( $node->nodeValue);
-            	if ( !empty( $value ) ) {
-		            echo PHP_EOL;
-		            echo str_repeat( '   ', $nested );
-		            echo 'N:' . $node->nodeName . ': ';
-		            echo 'V:' . $node->nodeValue;
-		            echo 'T:' . $node->nodeType;
-		            echo 'W:' . $node->wholeText;
-	            }
-	            //print_r( $node);
-            }
-		}
-        $nested--;
-	}
-}
-
-/*
- * DOMText Object
-(
-    [wholeText] =>
-
-    [data] =>
-
-    [length] => 2
-    [nodeName] => #text
-    [nodeValue] =>
-
-    [nodeType] => 3
-    [parentNode] => (object value omitted)
-    [childNodes] =>
-    [firstChild] =>
-    [lastChild] =>
-    [previousSibling] => (object value omitted)
-    [nextSibling] =>
-    [attributes] =>
-    [ownerDocument] => (object value omitted)
-    [namespaceURI] =>
-    [prefix] =>
-    [localName] =>
-    [baseURI] =>
-    [textContent] =>
-
-)
- */