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RE: Convert HTML to plain text

Rich text editor is a javascript tool tinyMCWE http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ I can strip html from what is saved but I want/need the HTML there for when this text is sent to a webpage and not when I print it via a spool file

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Subject: Re: Convert HTML to plain text

Is the text coming from an Active X RT control? What is the Rich Text editor being used? Have you looked at the editor to see if it has an API to strip the text and then send it via AJAX to the server?


Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
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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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