Newby: How do I strip HTML tags?

[Andy McKay]

> Standalone "<" and ">" indicate invalid HTML code, one should use <
> and > instead. You are of course right, in the end a use of
> predefined classes is almost always better than reinventing the wheel
> yourself.

Of course the main problem is there is a lot of invalid HTML out there ;)

I cant remember where the article was, but I found a good one a while ago
that showed a list of valid, but admittedly rare situations that can crop up
a simple html parser. Should make set of unit tests for any parser
actually...

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  Andy McKay
  Merlin Technologies