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KaelaC
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14 years ago

Stripping HTML from the message body returned by a rest call

I often want to truncate the message body returned by a REST call - sort of like making my own teaser.  This quick little freemarker code will clean out any HTML (so I don't end up with unclosed tags...
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Have you run into any errors with this snippet due to the string being parsed being too long? I'm getting StackOverflowError: null errors in that case.

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    Inactive User
    12 years ago

    Nice. That's going to be helpful. Does it strip out html though?

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      KaelaC
      Lithium Alumni (Retired)
      12 years ago

      For stripping out HTML you can use this new util:

       

      Strips HTML using the google gdata html stripper, which does the following:

      1. Converts <br> and <p> tags to new lines
      2. Converts <li> tags to new line and adds a dash
      3. Strips remaining tags
      4. Adds newlines after 72 characters (for readability and conformance with email standards)

       

      ${utils.html.stripper.from.gdata.strip("<p>hello <b>world</b><strong>!</strong>")