RE: FN-FORUM: Function to strip out HTML from data

date posted 8th October 2007 17:45

Dom wrote:
> lynx?

Pretty overkill for a dynamically generated page?!

I'm guessing the best performance-accuracy will be clever use of reg =
exp, as
this is natively avail under most web scripting languages. I'd suggest =
one
of the following approaches (I'd investigate in the order given) if =
better
accuracy is needed, without the overhead of instantiating a third-party
component:

- two-pass reg exp; first to get rid of attribs, second to get rid of =
tags
- further refinement of the negative-lookahead approach
- replacement function; use something like (JS syntax):

sText.replace(//g, CheckTagMatch);
function CheckTagMatch($0) {
// verify is a correct tag match, poss iterative reg exp
call if necess.
// .. Write me ..
}

Cheers, Ben

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