Extracting text between <body> tags

sumedha · June 29th, 2005, 02:04 PM

Hi,

I need to extract text occurring between the <body></body> tags of an html file. I need to collect text from various html files in this manner and concatenate it all into one file that can be preferably stored in pdf format. I am presuming that this can be done using regular expressions. Is there any software that does this kind of parsing? Or a much simpler option? Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Sumedha

meow · June 29th, 2005, 02:20 PM

Do you mean simply strip all tags? I think many text/html editors can do that. I know Notetab does it. You can d/l the trial or the free light version and give it a try.

http://notetab.com

(If you download it what you want is on the Modify menu:
Modify | Strip HTML tags | Preserve URLs)

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sumedha · June 29th, 2005, 02:37 PM

Hi,

Not strip the tags but just extract all the text (and images) that exist between the <body></body> tags only and output the same to a common file (that stores similar results obtained from multiple html docs).

Sumedha