.NET to convert HTML to text

I have an approach that does this, but it doesn't work very
well with
more complex documents. Some people have very complex
formatting on
outgoing emails.

Erick 

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You could use regular expressions to strip out html tags
from the
source; use them even if you want to preserve basic
formatting, like BR
to CR/LF conversion.

To catch every html tag you could use <[^>]*?/?> To
catch just BR (and
subsequently make the replacement with /n) you could use
<br[^>]*?/?>

HTH
--
Efran Cobisi, cobisi.com
Microsoft Certified Professional

Erick Thompson wrote:
> I need to clean up HTML formatted emails sent in to a
plain text
version. There are a ton of utilities out there that convert
from HTML
to text, but none of them appear to be .NET and suitable for
use in an
ASP.NET application. Does anyone have any suggestions for a
way to
convert HTML to text in an ASP.NET app?
>
> Thanks,
> Erick
>

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