Regex: Text from HTML, no attributes

Here's the actual code, in case someone stumbles on this later and needs it:replaceSearchTerms('ph00dz', 'dumkopf'); // this code came from http://www.nsftools.com/misc/SearchAndHighlight.htm// it was originally a highlighter... but repurposed for this thing!function doReplace(bodyText, searchTerm, replaceText) { // find all occurences of the search term in the given text, // and add some "highlight" tags to them (we're not using a // regular expression search, because we want to filter out // matches that occur within HTML tags and script blocks, so // we have to do a little extra validation) var newText = ""; var i = -1; var lcSearchTerm = searchTerm.toLowerCase(); var lcBodyText = bodyText.toLowerCase(); while (bodyText.length > 0) { i = lcBodyText.indexOf(lcSearchTerm, i+1); if (i { newText += bodyText; bodyText = ""; } else { // skip anything inside an HTML tag if (bodyText.lastIndexOf(">", i) >= bodyText.lastIndexOf(" { // skip anything inside a block if (lcBodyText.lastIndexOf("/script>", i) >= lcBodyText.lastIndexOf(" { newText += bodyText.substring(0, i) + replaceText; bodyText = bodyText.substr(i + searchTerm.length); // bodyText.substr(i, searchTerm.length) lcBodyText = bodyText.toLowerCase(); i = -1; } // end if } // end if } // end else } // end while return newText; } // end functionfunction replaceSearchTerms(searchText, replaceText) { searchArray = [searchText]; var bodyText = content.document.body.innerHTML; for (var i = 0; i { bodyText = doReplace(bodyText, searchArray[i], replaceText); } content.document.body.innerHTML = bodyText; return true; }>>>

Perhaps I'm missing something? Are you after the text for some further action in your js code? If not and you just want a plain text version of it, use textutil if you are on OS X.

There might be a much easlier way to do this - the http://links.sourceforge.net/ or http://lynx.browser.org text-mode web browsers and their "dump" option: mrbill@ohno:~> links -dump test.html Some text is heremrbill@ohno:~> lynx -dump test.html [sample.jpg] Some text is [1]hereReferences 1. file://localhost/disk/home/mrbill/fjkj.html

Also, the lone quote mark at the end should be a double (empty string) drat

There's not supposed to be a space between the < and the . in the regex, but I couldn't get it to show up right.

Screw the dom, real javascript ninjas use regex (you can paste this in the urlbar to see if it does basically what you want): javascript:for(var i=0; !document.childNodes[i].innerHTML; ++i); document.body.innerHTML=document.childNodes[i].innerHTML.replace(//gm, ');> The loop is to find the first non-empty node, which should contain the whole document if it's well formed. You'll need to beef up the regex a bit if you want it to remove CSS/Script blocks as well, but if you haven't moved on already I'd be happy to help with that.

if you have the contents in a string in ruby: mystring.gsub!(//, ' ') in PHP: $mystring = preg_replace('//', ' ', $mystring); Then mystring will hold just the content you want. I replace with a space instead of nothing so you don't end up with words running into each other if stripping out things like a <br> that don't have a space around it.>>

Didn't want to sound too not-having-a-clue, but viewing the HTML in a browser and cutting/pasting what you see is perhaps far too simple?

this is trivial with xsl; google have released an xsl implementation in javascript.