Convert HTML to plain-text

Demonstrates how to convert HTML to plain-text. The HTML-to-text conversion component/class is included with the Chilkat HTML-to-XML license.

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import com.chilkatsoft.*;

public class ChilkatExample {

  static {
    try {
        System.loadLibrary("chilkat");
    } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
      System.err.println("Native code library failed to load.\n" + e);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
    CkHtmlToText h2t = new CkHtmlToText();

    //  Any string argument automatically begins the 30-day trial.
    boolean success;
    success = h2t.UnlockComponent("30-day trial");
    if (success != true) {
        System.out.println(h2t.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    //  Set the HTML:
    String html;
    html = "<html><body><p>This is a test.</p><blockquote>Here is text within a blockquote</blockquote></body></html>";

    String plainText;

    plainText = h2t.toText(html);

    System.out.println(plainText);
  }
}