programatically remove all html and inline formatting

Question

i have taken over a code base and i have to read in these html files that were genreated by microsoft word, i think so it has all kinds of whacky inline formatting.

is there anyway to parse out all of the bad inline formatting and just get the text from this stream. i basically want a purifier programatically so i can then apply some sensible css

Answer 1

Give the HTML Agility Pack a shot.

Answer 2

You should use HTML Tidy - it's uniquitous when it comes to cleansing HTML. There's an article on DevX that describes how to do it from .NET.

Answer 3

This site seems to do the trick,

http://textism.com/wordcleaner/

Answer 4

See What is the best free way to clean up Word HTML?

Answer 5

in the end i just wrote a small class that did a bunch of find and replaces. not pretty but it worked.