strip-out HTML tags from text-block

[John Grandy]

Let's say I'm writing an app where various 3rd parties provide content.

In code, I store their content in strings.

The content typically is plain text , but some providers add-in snippets of
HTML to the text, and sometimes these snippets are HTML encoded.

Example 1 : "This new widget by <b>Whacko Corp</b> is so cool you'll be
hoarding them from the public in no time."

Example 2 : "This new widget by &lt;b&gt;Whacko Corp&lt;/b&gt; is so cool
you'll be hoarding them from the public in no time."

I need to incorporate this content into the body of an e-mail message.
Because many varieties of e-mail clients must be assumed, I must set

System.Web.Mail.MailMessage.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Text;

(I can not use MailFormat.HTML)

I am wondering if anywhere in the .NET libs are there methods that would
help me strip out the HTML tags, encoded or not ....

Or any other solution people can think of.

Thanks.

[shiv_koirala]

Tried regex (regulare expresssions)

there was some discussion on this hjeres the thread

http://groups.google.co.in/group/mic...0cafe10a274fba

Shivprasad Koirala
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