Looking for HTML to Text component

[Marina]

Hi,

Anyone know of a component to turn HTML into nice looking text? So not just
stripping out the tags, but formatting lists into text lists, etc.

Thanks

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Marina,

I think that you mean as well all format tags done. In my opinion are only
heavy applications as Word able to do that. (And than you have still
something as an RTF or Doc file).

A txt file will never look nice.

Just my thought,

Cor

 

[Marina]

Well, I don't necessarily expect it to look just as nice. But maybe instead
of bullets, have a '-' for items in a list. If I just strip out the tags, it
will look pretty terrible, since even that won't happen.

I was hoping someone wrote a component to do this in a similar fashion that
Word does, since of course I don't want to have to use Word for this...

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Marina,

I don't know it Charles Law is forever writing about it.

Html Agility Pack

http://sharptoolbox.com/Tool68a04d8d-4352-4335-acb7-d2ea4f672a60.aspx

(I don't know it it is the good link however probably you can find more of
it using Google)

I hope this helps,

Cor

 

[Marina]

Sorry, I'm not sure, what is this supposed to do? Is this like MSHTML, that
can parse HTML?

Can this component turn HTML into formatted text?

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Marina,

Sorry, I'm not sure, what is this supposed to do? Is this like MSHTML,
that can parse HTML?
Yes

Can this component turn HTML into formatted text?

Have a look at the link than you see it.

Cor

 

[Marina]

Well, I can just use MSHTML then, do do the parse. And I can get the text
out without all the tags already - the problem is, it will look horrible.

I looked at that site, but I couldn't find anything regarding formatting
text. It's just an HTML parser, but I'm not interested in parsing the HTM
(which I could do with just MSHTML already).

Am I missing something?

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Marina

Am I missing something?

No, however most people find mshtml horrible

Cor

 

[m.posseth]

Hello Marina


i think that the solution to your problem might be pretty simple ,,,,,,

my design concept would be : ( this is just a thought , but should be simple
to acomplish )

load the html document in a webbrowser control give the control focus ,
send ctrl + a then ctrl + c open a text document and send ctrl + v


regards

Michel Posseth

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Michel,

I agree with you nice simple solution.



Cor