RE: Convert HTML to plain text

XML is just an extension of HTML. You could technically use XML-INTO to strip out what you need. Well I believe you can, going to try to see if I can strip description from this xml element today <tab>description</tab>.


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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Cunningham
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 8:14 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Convert HTML to plain text

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