Parsing HTML to remove pictures and stylesheets

Hello,

I am trying to find some object/function able to take an HTML page
(code) as an input, strip out all images, stylesheets and other
external references, and returns "cleaned" HTML only (without external
references) or a text-only version of the page.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Seb

I would start with the HTML agility pack and se if it helps you.

http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.as...tmlagilitypack

If that fails, then a few well targetted regular expressions would do the
job I expect in findinf the offending parts. string.replace takes regular
expressions.
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Regards

John Timney (MVP)
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Hello,
>
I am trying to find some object/function able to take an HTML page
(code) as an input, strip out all images, stylesheets and other
external references, and returns "cleaned" HTML only (without external
references) or a text-only version of the page.
>
Any ideas?
>
Thanks,
Seb
>

Hey Seb,

I don't know of a program or function that already does this kind of thing,
but you could implement it by using Regular Expressions
(System.Text.RegularExpressions)

check out:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...classtopic.asp

Eric

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Hello,
>
I am trying to find some object/function able to take an HTML page
(code) as an input, strip out all images, stylesheets and other
external references, and returns "cleaned" HTML only (without external
references) or a text-only version of the page.
>
Any ideas?
>
Thanks,
Seb
>

I'd second that, the Html Agility Pack is ideal for this sort of thing.
In fact, it includes sample code for converting HTML into plain text.

More info here:
http://chrisfulstow.blogspot.com/200...ml-in-net.html

--
Chris Fulstow
MCP, MCTS
http://chrisfulstow.blogspot.com/

John Timney (MVP) wrote:

Quote:

I would start with the HTML agility pack and se if it helps you.
>
http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.as...tmlagilitypack
>
If that fails, then a few well targetted regular expressions would do the
job I expect in findinf the offending parts. string.replace takes regular
expressions.
--
Regards
>
John Timney (MVP)
VISIT MY WEBSITE:
http://www.johntimney.com
>
>
"Seb" <solive@gmail.comwrote in message
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Quote:

Hello,

I am trying to find some object/function able to take an HTML page
(code) as an input, strip out all images, stylesheets and other
external references, and returns "cleaned" HTML only (without external
references) or a text-only version of the page.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Seb

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