Remove all the HTML tags and display a plain text only inside (in case XML is not well formed)

Andreas Gieriet

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15 Feb 2012CPOL

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I think the following Regex and HtmlDecode would do:string html = ...;string textonly = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode( Regex.Replace(html, @"|", ""));Any HTML construct that would not be stripped off properly by this?

I think the following Regex and HtmlDecode would do:

string html = ...;
string textonly = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(
         Regex.Replace(html, @"<!--[\S\s]*?-->|<(?:"".*?""|'.*?'|[\S\s])*?>", ""));

Any HTML construct that would not be stripped off properly by this?

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Andreas Gieriet

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Switzerland

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Remove all the HTML tags and display a plain text only inside (in case XML is not well formed)

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