Hi, What you can do is write a utility method and explicitly check the occurrence of <a> and <i> tags.
If you encounter these days then don't replace them otherwise for all occurrences of other characters(.*?","") replace them in the result String. Thanks, Nirmal On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:15 PM, vunet <vunet...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If this strips my HTML out of the string: > > str.replaceAll("<.*?>",""); > > ...how can I strip everything excluding, say, A and I tags? Basically > I want to keep <a> and <i> tags. Please suggest. > > > > -- \\\/// / \ | \\ // | ( | (.) (.) |) ----------o00o--(_)--o00o----------------- Stand up,be bold,be strong. Take the whole responsibility on ur own shoulders and know that U are the creator of ur own destiny. ------ooo0------------------------------- ( ) 0ooo \ ( ( ) \_) ) / (_/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java EE (J2EE) Programming with Passion!" group. To post to this group, send email to java-ee-j2ee-programming-with-passion@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to java-ee-j2ee-programming-with-passion+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/java-ee-j2ee-programming-with-passion?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---