Stripping HTML tags and replacing for newlines

[Andréas Kühne]

Hi all,

I am hoping that someone has stumbled across a solution to a problem that I have currently.

I have created an email templating system. Each template can contain placeholders that will be replaced with live data (a bit like the django templating system). When I store the templates they are stored in HTML.

Now when I send the emails I of course want to send both text content and HTML. My idea from the beginning was to take my HTML content and strip the HTML tags and then send that. I did this via the django utils that strip tags. Now this works, HOWEVER I don't get any newlines for my <br> and <p></p> tags. 

I was wondering if anyone has had any similar issues and has found a good solution? What I want to do is strip all of the html tags and at the same time replace the <br> and <p></p> tags. 

Regards, 

Andréas

[Mike Dewhirst]

I made a special template tag where I encountered a similar problem but
it wouldn't suit your use case. I had to deal with newlines inserted by
users and which needed to be removed.

Maybe you could decorate the Django method and replace the newline tags
with something unique before Django strips the tags. Then replace your
unique replacements with \n after Django returns the text.

Just a thought.


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[James Schneider]

Now when I send the emails I of course want to send both text content and HTML. My idea from the beginning was to take my HTML content and strip the HTML tags and then send that. I did this via the django utils that strip tags. Now this works, HOWEVER I don't get any newlines for my <br> and <p></p> tags. 

I was wondering if anyone has had any similar issues and has found a good solution? What I want to do is strip all of the html tags and at the same time replace the <br> and <p></p> tags. 

Why not regex substitute all of the tags you listed with newlines before stripping the HTML out? I say use regex because you can do things like specify multiple tags and account for things like case sensitivity.

I would also look at a Python HTML to plain text conversion library, something like this:

https://github.com/aaronsw/html2text/blob/master/README.md

Never needed something like this, but looks interesting.

-James

[Andréas Kühne]

Thanks guys - I knew I could rely on getting good suggestions even in my sleep :-)

@James: I was thinking about going with regexp, but my regexp fu isn't to great - would take me too much time to sort through the regexp required. However I am thinking about doing something along those lines anyway. I will be looking into the html2text library you pointed out as well.

Regards,

Andréas

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