Convert HTML to Plain Text using c++

Question

Hi

I am doing mail parsing application which required to convert the HTML file to Plain Text. regarding this i have found some scripts which does conversion. I want to do same thing in C++.

So please suggest me any Cross platform and open source C++ libraries for converting HTML to Plain Text.

Thanks in advance Regards Subbi

Answer 1

Try using regular expression extracting html tags and save result as file text. But it not simple. Use this help class DEELX - Regular Expression Engine.

Answer 2

Take a look at html2text. It's a command tool and not a pure lib, but contains code which strips and converts html. So you should be able to use it.

Answer 3

As 'obvious' as it may sound you can just keep all the text between > & <