RE: Convert HTML to plain text

[Peter Connell <Peter.Connell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron,
Just downloaded it, followed the instructions to the letter and get 
java.io.IOException: Stream closed
everytime T_H2P4I is called ending up with a music.pdf of 0 bytes.

Peter


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aaron Bartell
Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2010 12:27 a.m.
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: 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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