(Visual Basic 6.0) Drop/Undrop Text Formatting Tags

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

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' This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

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

' Convert the above to XML
Dim h2x As New 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
Debug.Print h2x.ToXml()

' 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:
Debug.Print h2x.ToXml()

' 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:
Debug.Print h2x.ToXml()

' 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>