yap, I've done it with regular expressions. Check out http://jakarta.apache.org for regexp and ORO the regexp scriptlet is: String myHTML="<b>Bold</b>"; RE r = new RE("<[^>]+>"); String cleanText = r.subst(myHTML,""); cleanText.equals("Bold") should return true HTH JP > -----Original Message----- > From: Boris Erukhimov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 6:23 AM > To: Orion-Interest > Subject: Off topic : Conversion HTML to a plain text > > > Hello everybody, > > My aplication produces HTML e-mail attachment, but because of > some e-mail client hassle I need to duplicate the content as > a plain text placed in the message body. > To do this I need some quick and dirty solution to present > HTML file (which is built already) as a plain text simular to > what browser does when asked "Save as plain text". I can > probably develop something like that using > javax.swing.text.html but I hoped somebody did it already (?) > > Thanks > > >
