stripping HTML out of templates?

I actually tried this using PHP. While I got the process theoretically working, the HTML code CMS produces is so badly broken that around half the time, PHP could not effectively strip the tags out without mangling the text as well.

If anyone does find an efficient way to do this, please count me in on wanting a solution

Jim Drey:

I actually tried this using PHP. While I got the process theoretically working, the HTML code CMS produces is so badly broken that around half the time, PHP could not effectively strip the tags out without mangling the text as well.

If anyone does find an efficient way to do this, please count me in on wanting a solution

Not that I think it is entirely recommendable, you could do this through JS

<!-- you could hide it first, so there is no unsightly flash -->

<div id="list" style="display:none;">

     <div id="blurb1" class="listitem"><a href="nonn">be right back</a>here is a proces that I would like to see<p>tthat iw ould teach the of things to be</div>

     <div id="blurb2" class="listitem"><a href="nonn">be right back</a>here is a proces that I would like to see<p>tthat iw ould teach the of things to be</div>

</div>

<script>

stripBlurb = function( listitem ) {

          if (listitem.innerText) {

                    listitem.innerHTML = listitem.innerText;

          } else {

                    listitem.innerHTML = listitem.innerHTML.replace(/(<(+)>)/ig,"")

          }

}

var blurblist = document.getElementById("list")

var blurbs = blurblist.getElementsByTagName("DIV")

for (var x = 0; x < blurbs.length; x++ ) {

          if (blurbs.className == "listitem") stripBlurb(blurbs);

}

blurblist.style.display = "block";

</script>

It's coming in tomorrow evening's release! There will be a new function toText(html,tags) that takes a chunk of HTML and a comma-separated list of allowed tags. So,

<t:set id="stripped" value="toText(body,'p,em')"/>

Should give you a local variable named "stripped" that contains the page body HTML with only P and EM tags in it.

Let me know how this works out for you, Seth.

Message was edited by: BruceKeilin: changed "valued" to "value"

Seth Leonard:

Bruce,

It works great (though I only tested using an empty set of tags '') once I change "valued" to "value".

Thanks for making this happen, it's a great feature.

Seth

Glad it was helpful (and thanks for the proof-reading. I've updated the source.)