I am looking for a regexp that can be used to retrieve a summary text from a larger Html chunk so that I am not getting any Html code in my smaller summary text?

/Johan   www.nätdejting.nu 

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itansvar.se

Johan,

Can you please read the sticky note in the companion 'Construction Advice' forum (http://regexadvice.com/forums/thread/43218.aspx) and provide us with the details that are mentioned there?

However, if you are simply looking to strip out all of the HTML tags and leave the text behind, then I would suggest using the the HTML/XML/... DOM and look for the 'InnerText' value.

Susan 

I am using DotNetNuke and .Net framwork 2.0 and VB.net as programming language and the task to perform is to publish a summary list of new postings in a web content management system. But using inneText can only be done to wellformed XML doesn't it? And I am not sure it will be wellformed

/Johan    www.brommakontorshotell.se

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itansvar.se

I can only comment on my experience, but I have found that the DOM approach has always worked for the tasks I have had. If the code is not well formed to the extent that it cannot be displayed/interpreted then I doubt if anything is going to help much. Also, why would any (commercial or commercially used) web CMS system be producing badly formed pages if it is expecting to be used for anything useful?

Also, you have not really told us what you are trying to do. Are you wanting to remove all tags (regardless of what is in them) from a text? What about comments within the file? Are there specific items you are after to create the 'summary'?

Susan 

Hi Susan

 

thanks for your advice. yes I am in the first step just wanting to take away all the Html tags and only retrieving the text ... and then take a smal piece of this to make a summary. So the first thing I want to accomplish is to delete all the Html tags .... even if the tags doesn't have any closing tags but as you say most of the text I am working with has wellform html structure

/Johan www.rekryteringsföretag.com 

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itansvar.se

Hi again all of you and Susan

This is a sample I am trying to sort out:

<p>Fredrik Ljungberg is a famous football player</p>
<p> <font face="Courier New">Age: 31</font></p>
<p>Team: West Ham</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>sdf</p>
<p>Information about him</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>can be easy or though to find</p>
<p>&#160;</p>

I tested this with the XmlDocument and its InnerText property but I ran into a lot of errors so I am still trying to to it in Reg.Exp

Could any of you help me with a Reg.Exp sample in VB.Net that is deleting/replacing the red background text above with just an empty space?

/Johan   www.vattenskoter.info 

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itansvar.se

This seams to be working for me ...yet ..

            Dim HtmlText2 As String = ""
            Dim re As New Regex("<\S[^>]*>")
            HtmlText2 = re.Replace(HtmlText, "")
            Dim HtmlTextSummary As String = MakeSummary(HtmlText2)

I'll post corrections if I run into trouble

/Johan    www.skribenter.net

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itansvar.se

johjoh682:

Hi again all of you and Susan

This is a sample I am trying to sort out:

<p>Fredrik Ljungberg is a famous football player</p>
<p> <font face="Courier New">Age: 31</font></p>
<p>Team: West Ham</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>sdf</p>
<p>Information about him</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>can be easy or though to find</p>
<p>&#160;</p>

I tested this with the XmlDocument and its InnerText property but I ran into a lot of errors so I am still trying to to it in Reg.Exp

Could any of you help me with a Reg.Exp sample in VB.Net that is deleting/replacing the red background text above with just an empty space?

/Johan   www.vattenskoter.info 

You have to use the HTML DOM to parse HTML.  HTML is not xml.  You could use the XMLDocument if you are working with valid XHTML.

Your snippet isn't well formed so whether you have XHTML isn't clear but I don't think it is.

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Michael

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