[Catalyst] HTML to plain text conversion

[Xavier Robin]

On Monday 08 January 2007 20:19, Peter Karman wrote:
> Xavier Robin scribbled on 1/8/07 11:14 AM:
> > Do you know a (catalyst plugin|perl module|external tool) that converts
> > HTML to plain text? I mean, keeping some formatting (especially lists and
> > links...), not just stripping HTML tags...
>
> I use the w3m tool:
>
>   % w3m -dump file.html > file.txt
>
> I like it because it preserves tables pretty well.

Unfortunately it doesn't print href attributes of links.
I also tried HTML::Scrubber as proposed by Carl Franks, but basically it keeps 
some tags we chose to allow.

In fact, I'm looking for something that could convert my html file to a plain 
text file, so that no markup is allowed at all.

For example, a link like that:

<a href="http://site.example">A link</a>

would be transformed into something like:

A link
http://site.example

I'm sure that a module doing that exists on cpan.

Thanks,
Xavier
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