Strip HTML From Text
Is there a transformer for stripping HTML from text? I see the HTMLStripper, but it appears to replace HTML with XML. I want all HTML tags removed, including the <!DOCTYPE html>.
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Best Answer
Using the StringReplacer as @erik_jan says, but with <[^>]*> instead should remove all opening and closing tags.
I was able to strip the HTML tags with this little gem:
<[^>]*>
However, I couldn't remove the lines with only spaces or no content. I used another StringReplacer to remove the spaces, then a tester to see if the line was an "empty string". That worked.
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Could you use the StringReplacer transformer using regular expressions:
Find "<.*>" and replace with nothing.
This will replace all <anything inside> occurrences in the text.
That's a greedy expression and will replace everything from the first opening tag to the last closing tag.
Except it doesn't match any tags with attributes, or closing tags for that matter
