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I didn't see how you were actually producing the html. We have gone the XSLT route for all our printing. RPG program generates XML, then XSL can process this and output HTML or PDF. No more letters that look like they're written on typewriters for us!




-----Message d'origine-----
De : rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Mike Cunningham
Envoyé : mercredi 22 septembre 2010 14:47
À : RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Objet : RE: Convert HTML to plain text

I wish but on. This will be something that will be with us
for years. What would really be nice is a printer that
understands html. Then just spool out the html generated
using your favorite way to do html and send it to a spool
file and let the driver format and print it. For the printer
manufacture it would probably be any harder than PJL or PDF
or Postscript

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John McKay
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 10:31 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Convert HTML to plain text

If this is a once-off request, life gets simpler ...

... display the HTML page as normal in a browser, copy the
page using ctrl-c then paste and the work is done for you.


Regards,
John McKay mba

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Cunningham" <mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i / System i" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 3:01 PM
Subject: RE: Convert HTML to plain text


Thanks Vern. Looked at the samples, might go that way
although while it
does work I find it very difficult to get the code to work
and coming back
later to look at it in 6 months I get totally lost with
what it is doing
and how/why it works. /<\s*\/?\s*span\s*.*?>/g makes no
sense to my brain.
But that is my brains problem and might be the best
solution. I usually
prefer to go with code that is a bit more "wordy".

Here is a very simple sample of what is in the field in the
database. It
is not a full html page from <html> to </html> it is just a
snippet of
code in html format. This one only has <BR> to deal with
but the code
could have <span>s and <li>s and a few other goodies if
they format the
text to look nicer (indents, bullet lists, etc) It will
never be the full
suite of html, only a small subset which makes it easier.

"Students in baccalaureate programs will take coursework in
each of the
following categories: Cultural
Diversity,Science/Technology/Society and
Writing Enriched. Requirements are met in this program
with:<br />DIV: MGT
410<br />WEC: MGT 410, MGT 490<br />STS: Approved STS
elective in Liberal
Arts core (see catalog)<br />Directed Electives in this
program are: ACC
230, 310, CIM 428, MGT 116, 247, 315, 320, 340, 350, MKT
243, 251, 260,
QAL 101<br />(** At least 3 credits of the 6 must be 300-400 level
courses)<br /><br />STUDENTS WILL ENTER THIS PROGRAM WITH
AN ASSOCIATE
DEGREE WITH A TECHNOLOGY EMPHASIS. Current programs
ineligible for this
degree are BM, RM, GS, &amp; IS. Courses used in the
associate degree
cannot be used in the final 4 semesters."

I did the code already to put this into 80 characters
chucks or a <br>,
whichever occurs first and wrote a line to the print file
which resulted
in this.

Students in baccalaureate programs will take coursework in
each of the
following
categories: Cultural Diversity,Science/Technology/Society
and Writing
Enriched.
Requirements are met in this program with:
DIV: MGT 410
WEC: MGT 410, MGT 490
STS: Approved STS elective in Liberal Arts core (see catalog)
Directed Electives in this program are: ACC 230, 310, CIM
428, MGT 116,
247, 315
, 320, 340, 350, MKT 243, 251, 260, QAL 101
(** At least 3 credits of the 6 must be 300-400 level courses)

STUDENTS WILL ENTER THIS PROGRAM WITH AN ASSOCIATE DEGREE WITH A
TECHNOLOGY EMPH
ASIS. Current programs ineligible for this degree are BM,
RM, GS, &amp;
IS. Co
urses used in the associate degree cannot be used in the final 4
semesters.

Can easily deal with the &amp; but I think the fun will be
the word wrap.
I may need to parse the string into words and join words
together until
the length of what is joined plus the length of the next
word exceeds 80,
then write a line.

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Vern Hamberg
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 8:51 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Convert HTML to plain text

Mike

No code, just questions!

Is the HTML in a PF or in a STMF? The latter is preferable,
methinks. I
can see a couple things to do - first look for closing tags
- scan for
"</" - and the scan back for the matching opening tag. Then
take on the
unary (my term) tags like <br>.

There's also the need, perhaps, to take out <html> and
<head> and not the
contents of <body>.

Or maybe, as I get from another site, it's enough to strip
everything
between "<" and ">" in that order - unless you have
comparison operators
in there! Sites in the google below discuss these issues.

I did a quick google on "strip html tags". One link -

http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2003/05/13/6963.aspx
- discusses
using regular expressions. Another -

http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2007/09/php_tip_how_strip_h
tml_tags_web_page
- discusses issues about text you still want inside some tags.

Looks as if grep or sed or the like could do the work, with
an appropriate
expression. And those are callable from RPG or CL through QSH.

HTH
Vern

On 9/21/2010 7:13 AM, Mike Cunningham 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 anyon!

e !
might have done this already and would share their code.

Thanks

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