sed-Strip HTML tags (or XML tags)

kellnerp · Nov 21, 2011

So far I have this:

Code:

sed -r 's/(<[^>\n]*>)//g'

It does pretty good with tags all on one line, but things like <img src=blah blah blah that may extend over more than one line are not being caught.

Likewise things like <style type=text/css> ... </style> where I want to remove not just the tags, but the text between the tags are not being caught. Again, <style></style> tag pairs run over multiple lines in the general case.

Is there a way to accomplish this in sed? I can do it in awk already.

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drawoh · Nov 24, 2011

kellnerp,

Quite a few years ago, I wrote a crude SGML parser in Perl. Is there any reason you are not using Perl to do this?

Perl's switch command searches a string for an arbitrary sequence, and it returns everything in the string up to the sequence, and a everything in the string after the sequence. If you are messing with text, this is an awesome tool.

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sed-Strip HTML tags (or XML tags)

kellnerp

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