Converting HTML to ASCII

[Mike Meyer]

Michael Spencer <mahs at telcopartners.com> writes:

> Mike Meyer wrote:
>
>> It also fails on tags with a ">" in a string in the tag. That's
>> well-formed but ill-used HTML.
>>             <mike
> True enough...however, it doesn't fail too horribly:
>   >>> striptags("""<sometag attribute = '>'>the text</sometag>""")
>   "'>the text"
>   >>>

Depends on your example:

<sometage attribute='>' otherattribute='otherstuff' moreattribute='yet
more stuff'>

and so on. Then again, early browsers actually did the same kind of
parsing as you do, so this type of thing is discouraged.

> and I think that case could be rectified rather easily, by stripping
> any content up to '>' in the result without breaking anything else.

Yes, but then what happens with:

     <sometag>>text</sometag>

?

        <mike

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