Re: Simple HTML -> Text converter

Steve Quirk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.webobjects.devel
Message-ID <20060406101424.R55332@cartman>
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Guido Neitzer wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I'm looking for a simple class, that takes an HTML string, strips all HTML 
> tags and returns the plain text string. Is there something around, that can 
> be used easily from WO?
>
> Thanks,
> cug

You want it rendered or just remove the tags?

To generate .txt files from our .html docs, we use

 	"lynx -dump http://url > url.txt"

Embedding it in an app would be kinda grody though, requiring some kind of 
pipe() call.

- sq
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