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replace keyword within html string.

Answer 1

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Try using Regex expression. Create your expressions here, I used this and it works well.

http://regex-test.com/validate/javascript/js_match

Ravia 2010-01-13 12:18:04

Are you suggesting to parse HTML with regex? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/#1732454

Roger Pate 2010-01-13 13:04:34

Answer 2

A:

Use the text property instead of innerHTML if you're using javascript to access the content. That should remove all tags from the content, you give back a clean text representation of the customer's name.

For example, if the content looks like this:

<div id="name">
    <b>[Customer</b>Name]
</div>

Then accessing it's text property gives:

var name = document.getElementById("name").text;
// sets name to "[CustomerName]" without the tags

which should be easy to process. Do a regex search now if you need to.

Edit: Since you're doing this processing on the server-side, process the XML recursively and collect the text element's of each node. Since I'm not big on VB.Net, here's some pseudocode:

getNodeText(node) {
    text = ""
    for each node.children as child {
        if child.type == TextNode {
            text += child.text
        }
        else {
            text += getNodeText(child);
        }
    }
    return text
}

myXml = xml.load(<html>);
print getNodeText(myXml);

And then replace or whatever there is to be done!

Anurag 2010-01-13 12:38:09

Answer 3

A:

I have found what I believe is a solution to this issue. Well in my scenario it is working.

The html input has been tweaked to place each custom field or keyword within a div with a set id. I have looped through all of the elements within the html string using mshtml and have set the inner text to the correct value when a match is found.

e.g.

Function ReplaceDetails(ByVal message As String, ByVal customerName As String) As String
    Dim returnString As String = String.Empty
    Dim doc As IHTMLDocument2 = New HTMLDocument
    doc.write(message)
    doc.close()
    For Each el As IHTMLElement In doc.body.all
        If (el.id = "Date") Then
            el.innerText = Now.ToShortDateString
        End If
        If (el.id = "CustomerName") Then
            el.innerText = customerName
        End If
    Next
    returnString = doc.body.innerHTML
    return returnString

Thanks for all of the input. I'm glad to have a solution to the problem.

53an 2010-01-14 11:03:42

that's great.. you should mark your solution as the answer

Anurag 2010-01-15 03:40:07

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