Use Formatted Text field as plain text

[Elizabeth R.]

We are using Hippo 10.x with Freemarker templates for the front end

We have a Doc Type with a Formatted Text field (let's call it Title). We display that field on the page without any problem with the limited formatting allowed by a Formatted Text field (using the hst.html tag).

I'd like to also use that same content minus the formatting as part of the <title> tag on the page. Is there a way (either directly in the FTL or in the Java back end for the component) to get a copy of the content from that Formatted Text field but as plain text, i.e. with all the HTML tags stripped out?

This seems like something a lot of systems would have reason to do, but I haven't been able to find an appropriate example or reference.

Thanks

-Elizabeth

[Woonsan Ko]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Elizabeth R. <ereid...@gmail.com> wrote:

We are using Hippo 10.x with Freemarker templates for the front end

We have a Doc Type with a Formatted Text field (let's call it Title). We display that field on the page without any problem with the limited formatting allowed by a Formatted Text field (using the hst.html tag).

I'd like to also use that same content minus the formatting as part of the <title> tag on the page. Is there a way (either directly in the FTL or in the Java back end for the component) to get a copy of the content from that Formatted Text field but as plain text, i.e. with all the HTML tags stripped out?

You can use this static utility method:

- org.hippoecm.hst.utils.SimpleHtmlExtractor#getText(String html)

 

This seems like something a lot of systems would have reason to do, but I haven't been able to find an appropriate example or reference.

The utility was documented for a different use case:

- http://www.onehippo.co.uk/site/dotorg/library/concepts/web-application/xss-and-crlf-injection-prevention-with-hst-2.html

Regards,

Woonsan

 

Thanks

-Elizabeth

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[NotAHippoTamer]

Hi,

I have already come across the static method org.hippoecm.hst.utils.SimpleHtmlExtractor.getText(String html) but I didn't succeed in call in it directly in the FTL, so the other solution was to use a regex to remove the html tags from the content :

${bean.content.content?replace('<[^>]+/>','', 'r')}

Best regards