HTML to plain text

[Andrea Borruso]

Hello,
I need to convert

<span id="name">Lorem <b>ipsum</b> some text</span>

to "Lorem ipsum some text".

I have tried with "value.parseHtml().select("span").toString()", but I obtain "<span id="name">Lorem <b>ipsum</b> some text</span>".

Is there a generic way to convert the text inside an HTML tag in a plain text.

Thank you

[Andrea Borruso]

Solved: it's htmlText()

Thank you

[Thad Guidry]

Andrea,

Did you solve it by reading our Wiki docs and recipes ?

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 3:40 AM Andrea Borruso <abor...@gmail.com> wrote:

Solved: it's htmlText()

Thank you

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[andy]

Thad,

On 7 February 2018 at 03:08, Thad Guidry <thadg...@gmail.com> wrote:

Did you solve it by reading our Wiki docs and recipes ?

my starting poit has been Extract HTML attributes, text, links with integrated GREL Jsoup commands.

But in some way, I'm not very smart, it confused me, because I have read "Extract text" and I thought that the way to extract text was to use ".toString()".

I gave up and wrote to you. Then I realized that I had not read yet the "Other Functions" section.

Thank you

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[Thad Guidry]

Thanks, I've added that example of simple HTML text extraction to that wiki page !

https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/StrippingHTML

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[andy]

On 7 February 2018 at 16:01, Thad Guidry <thadg...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, I've added that example of simple HTML text extraction to that wiki page !

https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/StrippingHTML

You are very kind, thank you very much, great thing!