HTML->unformatted ascii text converters?

[Donald Barclay]

I made my own HTML stripper using the macro feature on my word processor
(Word 6.0).  Using the Find and Replace fuctions, it wasn't hard to create
the macro, and I was able to customize it to center, bold, headline,
indent, etc.  I can save the stripped HTML documents as ASCII files or as
Word files (though, of course, the ASCII files don't have all the
formating that the Word files have). 

Donald A. Barclay
Coordinator of Electronic Services    always the beautiful answer
University of Houston Libraries       who asks a more beautiful question
DBarclay at uh.edu                               --e.e. cummings

On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Nancy Lombardo wrote:

> Tony,
> 
> I don't know about the source code, but Homesite2.0
> (http://www.dexnet.com) will strip all the HTML tags from a coded
> document. (Edit menu, Strip All Tags) It leaves you with a straight ascii
> text document with carriage returns and white space preserved. It's also a
> really nice HTML editor for those who already know code and want to speed
> up their productivity. 
> 
> Nancy Lombardo, Systems Librarian
> Eccles Health Sciences Library
> (801) 581-5241
> > 
> > Does anyone know of any software out there (including the source code -
> > in C preferably) that takes HTML documents and outputs straight unformatted
> > ASCII text (without any of the HTML tags).  If it includes any of the 
> > rudimentary formatting from the docuement (like centering), that would
> > be great.
> > 
> > Anthony Toyofuku
> > Programmer
> > Division of Library Automation
> > Office of the President
> > The University of California
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