From: Max Benjamin <moore.joseph@...>
Date: 2006-07-24T01:17:49+09:00
Subject: Re: strip tags?

Daniel Baird wrote:
> On 7/23/06, Andreas S. <f@andreas-s.net> wrote:
>>
>> Daniel Baird wrote:
>> > On 7/23/06, Stefan Scholl <stesch@no-spoon.de> wrote:
>> >> A regex isn't always the _best_ way to deal with markup
>> >> languages, but for an _easy_ way it's good enough.
>> >
>> > the problem is, it's not always the _correct_ way.
>> > <div id="weird>id"></div>
>>
>> This is no correct HTML, < and > have to be encoded as entities.
> 
> 
> That is true.. if the original poster has the luxury of only dealing 
> with
> correct html, he's a lucky fellow, and can kludge up some regexen that 
> will
> do the job.  Even in a well-coded site, it's not unthinkable that you 
> could
> forget to do some encoding and end up with angle-brackets inside a 
> textarea
> or something, though.
> 
> How useful a regex approach is depends on the data.  I have used a bit 
> of
> regex-type html parsing before and it worked fine, for the data that I 
> was
> parsing.  Horses for courses.
> 
> ;D
Thanks for the quick replys.
I should have been more explicit in my question.  I want to strip html 
tags in order to sanitize form input.  I'm a bit of a ruby noob and I 
was hoping to find a function similar to PHP's strip_tags, one that 
would remove both html and ruby code.
Best

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