RE: Convert HTML to plain text -- RPG400-L

Thanks Aaron, this might be useful for other things also

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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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