strip out html

Hello

anybody knows how i can strip out the html from a control's innerhtml to show only the relevant text? i.e
<span id="test1" runat="server"><a href="http://links.10026.com/?link=test1.htm">abcde</a><b>blah</b></span

so that on my server side code, somehow i would get "abcde blah"?
thanks!FYI... you wouldn't get "abcde blah" you'd get "abcdeblah"
I dont think there is an auto-way to do this but just look for the > and <
and use the Substring in a recursive function

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Curt Christianson
Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
www.Darkfalz.com

"newbie" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> anybody knows how i can strip out the html from a control's innerhtml to
show only the relevant text? i.e.
> <span id="test1" runat="server"><a
href="test1.htm">abcde</a><b>blah</b></span>
> so that on my server side code, somehow i would get "abcde blah"??
> thanks!
"newbie" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> anybody knows how i can strip out the html from a control's innerhtml to
show only the relevant text? i.e.
> <span id="test1" runat="server"><a
href="test1.htm">abcde</a><b>blah</b></span>
> so that on my server side code, somehow i would get "abcde blah"??
> thanks!

Provided it is xhtml compliant (i.e. no unclosed tags and case sensitive),
why not read the contents of each node, with an XmlTextReader? Then
concatenate each node's value using a StringBuilder.

ms-help://MS.NETFrameworkSDK/cpref/html/frlrfSystemXmlXmlTextReaderClassctor
Topic.htm

...and see the example at bottom for how to use the XmlTextReader.

R.