Jaf
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Although Detagger has many options for removing particular classes of tags, sometimes people say they want to use Detagger to selectively remove a particular tag from the HTML, or they'd like a specially tagged section of text omitted/extracted in a conversion to text.
In such cases you can use the "Text Commands" feature. This feature allows you to define text manipulation commands which are executed against the input text line-by-line before it is passed to the converter this can make your text look quite different to Detagger.
For example, recently a customer contact me with markup in the form
{0> "English Text" <}100{> "French Text" <0}
where there was a translation going on and the 100 represented the accuracy of the translation.
As it stands Detagger will remove anything between a < and > when you convert to text. However using the Text commands
replace_text exact_string "{0>" by_string "<!-- "
replace_text exact_string "<}" by_string ""
replace_text exact_string "{>" by_string " -->"
replace_text exact_string "<0}" by_string ""
would turn the above line into
<!-- English Text 100 --> French Text
before it was detagged, so after detagging it would show just the French text
"French Text"
Alternatively the commands
replace_text exact_string "{0>" by_string " "
replace_text exact_string "<}" by_string "<!-- "
replace_text exact_string "{>" by_string " "
replace_text exact_string "<0}" by_string " -->"
turns the line into
English Text <!-- 100 French Text -->
which would detag to show
"English text"
This can be a powerful technique for selectively detagging files or concerting them to text.
< Message edited by Jaf -- 3/20/2006 10:15:17 PM >
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