remove html tags from text

[Mark Smith]

A little more research suggests that ">" will be ">" (greater  
than) and "<" will be "<" (less than). So I'm guessing that "<"  
and ">" in quoted strings won't be a problem.

What will be a problem is turning ">" back into ">", and all the  
other de-escaping that the htmlText approach takes care of. I guess  
that there is a table of these things somewhere out there, so we'd  
need a function that uses such a table to make sure all our non-tag  
content is ok.

Other than that, the original function, with Mark Wieder and Jim  
Aults additions should handle many simple cases.

Best,

Mark

On 8 Sep 2006, at 20:07, Mark Smith wrote:

> To reveal yet more of my ignorance, is it likely (certain?) that  
> "<" and ">" that are not tag-ends will be urlEncoded (%3C and %3E,  
> I think)?
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
> On 8 Sep 2006, at 18:18, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> For example, how does it account for "<" and ">" which may appear  
>> in quoted strings or comments?
>