Replace html tags and quotes escapes from text

[Eusthace]

Hi,

I need help again guys, just trying to remove html tags and quotes escapes (quotation marks in html) from a string in my view (scala template).

I'm using:

<p>@str.replaceAll("""<(?!\/?a(?=>|\s.*>))\/?.*?>""", "")</p>

And the problem is that text still includes quotes escapes:

"Tengo un mont&oacute;n de balones de reglamento de un equipo de f&uacute;tbol"

"This sentence is surrounded by &quot; and &quot;, which are a type of quotation marks."

“This sentence is surrounded by &ldquo; and &rdquo;, which are a type of quotation marks.”

‘This sentence is surrounded by &lsquo; and &rsquo;, which are a type of quotation marks.’

«This sentence is surrounded by &laquo; and &raquo;, which are a type of quotation marks.»

‹This sentence is surrounded by &lsaquo; and &rsaquo;, which are a type of quotation marks.›

„This sentence is surrounded by &bdquo; and &ldquo;, which are a type of quotation marks.“

‚This sentence is surrounded by &sbquo; and &lsquo;, which are a type of quotation marks.‘

Any help of how to do it, please?

[Johan Andren]

You can allow raw-html in the string by using the template helper @Html

Don't use it with data that the users can specify though or you are opening up your webapp for injection attacs.

[Eusthace]

It's not what i need, i need to REMOVE html and quotation tags from a text.

[Jason Pearson]

In scala you could write scala.xml.Utility.escape("some text here") and it will escape html entities.  Not sure what the Java method is for that, but try looking at this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1265282/recommended-method-for-escaping-html-in-java

http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-2.6/org/apache/commons/lang/StringEscapeUtils.html

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[Marconi Lanna]

Don't use a regex, use jsoup: http://jsoup.org/

[Eusthace]

i've tested your solution with no success:

scala.xml.Utility.escape(mymodel.description)

output:

&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;F&amp;amp;uacute;tbol &amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;bal&amp;amp;oacute;n ipsum dolor sit amet&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt;, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla id pharetra elit.

[Eusthace]

Thank you for your help @Marconi, i've finally solve the problem using jsoup.

Solution:

I've added jsoup-1.7.2.jar to the lib folder (you have to create if don't exists) of play project.

Then i've added this line to Build.scala:

,"org.jsoup" % "jsoup" % "1.7.2"

And then i just call parse at my scala template view:

@org.jsoup.Jsoup.parse(mymodel.description).text

Thank you again!

[Marconi Lanna]

I'm glad it worked for you. If you add it to Build.scala, you don't need to put the jar in the lib folder.