Is there an easy way to strip HTML from a QString in Qt?

Question

I have a QString with some HTML in it... is there an easy way to strip the HTML from it? I basically want just the actual text content.

<i>Test:</i><img src="blah.png" /><br> A test case

Would become:

Test: A test case

I'm curious to know if Qt has a string function or utility for this.

Answer 1

I won't do the legwork, but if you google "QString" and "regex" and "regex remove html" you'll find what you need. I've done it before.

Answer 2

You may try to iterate through the string using QXmlStreamReader class and extract all text (if you HTML string is guarantied to be well formed XML).

Something like this:

QXmlStreamReader xml(htmlString);
QString textString;
while (!xml.atEnd()) {
    if ( xml.readNext() == QXmlStreamReader::Characters ) {
        textStream += xml.text();
    }
}

but I'm unsure that its 100% valid ussage of QXmlStreamReader API since I've used it quite longe time ago and may forget something.