Classic ASP

Drop/Undrop Text Formatting Tags

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Demonstrates how the DropTextFormattingTags and UndropTextFormattingTags methods work in the Html-to-Xml API. Classic ASP

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
'  This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
'  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

html = "<html><body><p><b>Hello</b> World!<p>This is a test</body></html>"

'  Convert the above to XML
set h2x = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.HtmlToXml")

'  By default, text formatting tags are dropped. Text formatting HTML tags are: b, font, i, u, br, center, em, strong, big, tt, s, small, strike, sub, and sup
h2x.Html = html
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( h2x.ToXml()) & "</pre>"

'  The resulting XML is:

'  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
'  <root>
'      <html>
'          <body>
'              <p>
'                  <text>Hello World!</text>
'              </p>
'              <p>
'                  <text>This is a test</text>
'              </p>
'          </body>
'      </html>
'  </root>

'  To preserve text formatting tags, put the h2x instance into the mode where text formatting tags are not dropped:
h2x.UndropTextFormattingTags 

'  Convert again to see the difference:
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( h2x.ToXml()) & "</pre>"

'  The resulting XML is:

'  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
'  <root>
'      <html>
'          <body>
'              <p>
'                  <b>
'                      <text>Hello</text>
'                  </b>
'                  <text> World!</text>
'              </p>
'              <p>
'                  <text>This is a test</text>
'              </p>
'          </body>
'      </html>
'  </root>

'  Call DropTextFormattingTags to put the h2x instance back in "drop" mode.
h2x.DropTextFormattingTags 

'  Convert again to see the difference:
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( h2x.ToXml()) & "</pre>"

'  The resulting XML is:

'  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
'  <root>
'      <html>
'          <body>
'              <p>
'                  <text>Hello World!</text>
'              </p>
'              <p>
'                  <text>This is a test</text>
'              </p>
'          </body>
'      </html>
'  </root>

%>
</body>
</html>