Re: Stripping HTML tags

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Rici Lake wrote:
> (Please don't reply to messages when you're starting a new thread. It's 
> confusing.)
>
> On 15-Aug-05, at 2:44 PM, Florian Berger wrote:
>
> > I thought that stripping HTML tags was easy until I saw something like 
> > this:
> > <a href="http://www.example.com"; alt="> example"> example </a>
>
>
> That would be non-trivial to handle with a regular expression, although 
> I think it is possible.
>
> However, you would have quite a bit of trouble with some other 
> legitimate HTML constructions, particularly comments (<!-- I left out 
> the <p> tag here -->) and embedded javascript. If you want a 
> bullet-proof html parser, you should probably use a tokenizer.

You could just use luaexpat and then extract out what you need. This is 
especially easy with the Lua Object Model feature, which simply returns 
the HTML as a hierarchy of tables. Expat is very good at grokking all 
the twisty bits of HTML, so this could help get past all that...

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