From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2009-07-20T18:30:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Hpricot - strip out images and show first x words

Max Williams wrote:
> 7stud -- wrote:
> 
>> Well, what does this say:
>> 
>>> I have a bunch of html in p tags and i want to show shorted
>>> summary - like the first 25 words followed by '...'. 
> I guess that was a bit ambiguous, sorry.  Anyway, i'm interested to see 
> you don't think it's worth bothering with hpricot in this case, and just 
> use a regex - i was wondering if hpricot was overkill myself.
> 
> One problem that just occurred to me is that treating the whole html 
> like text and taking the first 25 words will make it into invalid html - 
> because we have start tags with no matching end tags.  
>

I stopped using Hpricot because you said this was your desired output:

>> post.lede
=> "<p><i>From the <a
href="http://blog.ukti.gov.uk/2009/01/26/business-breakfast-20-or-when-new-media-met-the-foreign-secretar/"><span
class="caps">UKTI</span> blog</a>:</i></p><p>Early on 20 January 2009,
nine British new media innovators and I arrived at the Foreign Office
for a meeting ..."

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