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    copied!<p>I'm working on a specialized HTML stripper. The current stripper replaces &lt;td&gt; tags with tabs then &lt;p&gt; and &lt;div&gt; tags with double carriage-returns. However, when stripping code like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;td&gt;First Text&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="background:#330000"&gt;&lt;p style="color:#660000;text-align:center"&gt;Some Text&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt; </code></pre> <p>It (obviously) produces</p> <pre><code>First Text Some Text </code></pre> <p>We'd like to have the &lt;p&gt; replaced with nothing in this case, so it produces:</p> <pre><code>First Text (tab) Some Text </code></pre> <p>However, we'd like to keep the double carriage-return replacement for other code where the &lt;p&gt; tag is not surrounded by &lt;td&gt; tags.</p> <p>Basically, we're trying to replace &lt;td&gt; tags with \t always and &lt;p&gt; and &lt;div&gt; tags with \r\r ONLY when they're not surrounded by &lt;td&gt; tags.</p> <p>Current code: (C#)</p> <pre><code> // insert tabs in places of &lt;TD&gt; tags result = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(result, @"&lt;td\b(?:[^&gt;""']|""[^""]*""|'[^']*')*&gt;", "\t", System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase); // insert line paragraphs (double line breaks) in place // of &lt;P&gt;, &lt;DIV&gt; and &lt;TR&gt; tags result = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(result, @"&lt;(div|tr|p)\b(?:[^&gt;""']|""[^""]*""|'[^']*')*&gt;", "\r\r", System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase); </code></pre> <p>(there's more code to the stripper; this is the relevant part)</p> <p>Any ideas on how to do this without completely rewriting the entire stripper?</p> <p>EDIT: I'd prefer to not use a library due to the headaches of getting it signed off on and included with the project (which itself is a library to be included in another project), not to mention the legal issues. If there is no other solution, though, I'll probably use the HTML Agility Pack.</p> <p>Mostly, the stripper just strips out anything it finds that looks like a tag (done with a large regex based on a regex in Regular Expressions Cookbook. This, replacing line break tags with /r, and dealing with multiple tabs is the brunt of the custom stripping code.</p>
 

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