remove html tags from text
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sun Sep 10 13:55:18 EDT 2006
Mark Smith wrote:
> On 10 Sep 2006, at 16:26, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> So until someone can demonstrate otherwise, I'm sticking with using
>> fields to strip tags from text.....
>
> Though doesn't this approach fail with legitimate "<" characters in
> <code> (or other) tags?
>
> Of course, that may not be important in your usage.
It's very important for most of us, since we're looking for the most
robust solution.
I just tried it and found that this:
<pre>
put 2<3
</pre>
...produces an incomplete rendering like this:
put 2
...but this:
<pre>
put 2< 3
</pre>
...is rendered as expected like this:
put 2< 3
I would imagine similar results if we special-case the regex solution to
also handle non-white space after a "<".
If both methods are equally robust then the one to use would be the
fastest. But if one of more fault-tolerant than the other, than if the
speed of both is at least acceptable than I'd go with the more robust one.
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Richard Gaskin
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