Dropping HTML Tag Types

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Perl script showing how to drop specific HTML tag types during an HTML to XML conversion.

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# file: DropTagType.pl

use chilkat;

# Demonstrates how specific HTML tags can be selected to be dropped
# during the HTML to XML conversion process.


$htmlConv = new chilkat::CkHtmlToXml();
$success = $htmlConv->UnlockComponent("anything for 30-day trial");
if (! $success) {
	print "component is locked!\n";
	exit;
}

$html = "<html><body><span>This <b>is</b> a <i>test</i><hr></span></body></html>";
	
# First, call UndropTextFormattingTags to prevent the text formatting tags
# from being dropped by default.
$htmlConv->UndropTextFormattingTags();

# We'll want to drop <hr>, <i>, and <span> tags:
$htmlConv->DropTagType("hr");
$htmlConv->DropTagType("i");
$htmlConv->DropTagType("span");

# To convert, set the HTML and get the XML:
$htmlConv->put_Html($html);
$xml = $htmlConv->xml();

print $xml . "\n";


#	The output is this:
#	
#	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
#
#	<root>
#	    <html>
#	        <body>
#	            <text>This </text>
#	            <b>
#	                <text>is</text>
#	            </b>
#	            <text>a  test</text>
#	        </body>
#	    </html>
#	</root>