Re: Convert HTML to plain text

I haven't done *exactly* what you are asking for, but my HTML2PDF4i free and
open source tool might get you part of the way there. I wrote about it a
few months ago in IBMSystemsMag.com. You can find that here:

http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/webexclusive/32493p1.aspx

HTH,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/


On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Mike Cunningham <mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx>wrote:

Would anyone happen to have RPG code to take HTML and strip off all the
tags and just have plain text that would be printed using normal print
files? I have a form that needs to be displayed on a web page and also
printed from an RPG application. Part of the form is data collected using a
rich-text editor on a web page that is stored as HTML in a variable length
field. Works great when the form is on a webpage as it is a
what-you-see-is-what-you-get function. Any special editing put in the
rich-text editor shows on the web page exactly as entered. Problem is taking
that html code and printing it using a normal print file to an outq then the
printer. Stripping out the html tags might not be too bad. Dealing with <br>
tags and <p> tags and <ul><li> can be a bit more challenging but I think
word wrap is going to be the hardest. The print file line is 80 characters
and I need to be sure to not break a word between lines. Some tricky code
and I thought I would just see if anyone !
might have done this already and would share their code.

Thanks
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