HTML to Text renderer

Robert Brewer fumanchu at amor.org
Tue Nov 2 18:43:59 EST 2004


Ian Bicking wrote:
> Does anyone know of a module that can render HTML to text?  Just a 
> subset of HTML, really; I'd like to compose emails using <p> tags and 
> whatnot, fill in all the values in the email template, then 
> apply word 
> wrapping and other formatting.  Also, it'll make using Zope Page 
> Templates with email easier.
> 
> Even if all it supports is <p> and <br> that would be enough, but I'm 
> hoping there's something even more complete out there.  I don't need 
> something as general as, say, Lynx; these templates would be written 
> with a specific renderer in mind.

To clarify: you don't want the HTML tags merely stripped; you want to
replace e.g. br with a line break and p with, say, two line breaks?


FuManChu



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