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    <p>I recently started using the following RegEx in a ReReplace() function to strip HTML tags from a string using ColdFusion. <strong>Please note: I am not using this as protection from XSS or SQL injection;</strong> this is only to remove existing and safe HTML from a string before it's displayed in an HTML title attribute.</p> <pre><code>REReplaceNoCase(str,"&lt;[^&gt;]*&gt;","","ALL") </code></pre> <p>In a semi-related question <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4540036/how-can-i-combining-the-following-regexs-into-one-expression">I asked how to modify my RegEx</a> to include spaces and line breaks. I was told that using RegEx for this purpose is not appropriate and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454">this post was referenced as an explanation.</a></p> <blockquote> <p>I strongly suspect though that the regular expressions you have posted don't in fact work correctly. I'd advise you not to use regular expressions to parse HTML as HTML is not a regular language. Use an HTML parser instead. (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4540036/how-can-i-combining-the-following-regexs-into-one-expression/4540050#4540050">Mark Byers</a>)</p> </blockquote> <p>If this is true, what is the appropriate tool for removing HTML from a string before it's displayed? (Baring in mind the HTML is already safe; it's sanitized before entry to the DB).</p> <p>I am aware of <a href="http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7847.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">HTMLEditFormat()</a> and <a href="http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7848.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">HTMLCodeFormat()</a>, but those two functions do not provide what I need; the earlier replaces special characters with their HTML-escaped equivalents, while the latter does exactly the same but also wraps the string a <code>&lt;pre&gt;</code> tag.</p> <p>What I would like to do is clean a string from HTML and line breaks before I display in an HTML title attribute <code>&lt;a title="My string without HTML goes here"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;</code> </p> <p>There are times when the HTML is not necessary. Say you wanted to display an excerpt from a post without the HTML stored along with it, for instance.</p>
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