Re: Stripping HTML attributes and tags

JJ Harrison wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:58:34 +1100, dorayme <dorayme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>> From: JJ Harrison <noodle_snacks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Are there any asp scripts or programs availible that will strip
>>> selected html tags and remove attributes (such as style info etc)
>>> automatically availible?
>>
>>
>>I use BBEdit text editor and the grep pattern search and replace
>>function (or indeed often the regular search and replace), will
>>work for all files in any selected folder...). Powerful stuff,
>>handle with care.
>
> I am not very confident with regular expressions, can anyone suggest a
> good guide or some expressions that would remove all tags except
> <p>,<br>,<ul>,<li>,<b>,<em>,<i>,<strong> and remove all remaining
> attriubtes from the existing tags?

I could, but this is easier:

http://uk2.php.net/strip_tags

--
Jim
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