Text Formatting Tags

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Perl script showing how HTML text formatting tags are dropped by default during the HTML to XML conversion process. Text formatting tags may be kept by calling UndropTextFormattingTags.

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# file: TextFormattingTags.pl

use chilkat;

# Demonstrates how HTML text formatting tags are (by default) dropped
# during the HTML to XML conversion process.  To keep text formatting
# tags, call UndropTextFormattingTags

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

$html = "<html><body>This <b>is</b> a <i>test</i></body></html>";
	
# 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  is a  test</text>
#		        </body>
#		    </html>
#		</root>
#		
#		
			
# What happened to the <b> and <i> tags???
# By default, text formatting tags are dropped.
# If we call UndropTextFormattingTags, the tags will remain:
$htmlConv->UndropTextFormattingTags();
	
$xml = $htmlConv->xml();

print $xml . "\n";
	
#		We now get this:
#		
#		<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
#
#		<root>
#		    <html>
#		        <body>
#		            <text>This </text>
#		            <b>
#		                <text>is</text>
#		            </b>
#		            <text>a </text>
#		            <i>
#		                <text>test</text>
#		            </i>
#		        </body>
#		    </html>
#		</root>