How Can I strip HTML from Text in .NET?

Question

I have an asp.net web page that has a TinyMCE box. Users can format text and send the HTML to be stored in a database.

On the server, I would like to take strip the h

Answer 1

If you are just storing text for indexing then you probably want to do a bit more than just remove the HTML, such as ignoring stop-words and removing words shorter than (say) 3 characters. However, a simple tag and stripper I once wrote goes something like this:

    public static string StripTags(string value)
    {
        if (value == null)
            return string.Empty;

        string pattern = @"&.{1,8};";
        value = Regex.Replace(value, pattern, " ");
        pattern = @"<(.|\n)*?>";
        return Regex.Replace(value, pattern, string.Empty);
    }

It's old and I'm sure it can be optimised (perhaps using a compiled reg-ex?). But it does work and may help...