Dodgeball Cannon » html5lib http://www.johntantalo.com/blog It's not so much a time machine as it is my blog. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:10:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Strip tags with html5lib http://www.johntantalo.com/blog/strip-tags-with-html5lib/ http://www.johntantalo.com/blog/strip-tags-with-html5lib/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:14:37 +0000 John Tantalo http://www.johntantalo.com/blog/?p=82 There are a couple posts out there that discuss stripping tags with html5lib, but they seem intent on preserving the “acceptable elements” such as <span> and <code>.

This is fine unless you really want to friggin’ strip out the tags, like I needed for Emend. The following is my solution.

Source code for stripping tags with html5lib and unit test.

For example,

>>> from strip_tags import strip_tags
>>> strip_tags('<p>foo</p> <script>bar</script>')
u'foo bar'

Thanks go to Edward O’Connor for pointing me towards html5lib in the first place. It’s a huge improvement over HTMLParser.

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