ls options: accept stdin, and list files except for...

intent (example):  list all files in a directory that aren't html files.

    $ ls --except *.html

I can obviously pipe ls though grep -v to get the result, but I can't put
the result back into ls because ls doesn't accept stdin. Hence, this does
not work:

    $ ls | grep -v .html | ls [OPTIONS]

I want the nicely formatted result that ls gives (w/appropriate formatting
params), but from input not necessarily from the command line.

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--dan
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