Acquiring HTML Text From HTML Page

Question

Just wanting to make a simple html editor. I read the documentation, and yes I know that not all pages form to the specifiecations, but I just want to know how to get all that yummie HTML into text rather than serving up a webpage. I am using the JEditorPane, and I think this answer may lay in the javax.swing.text.*; packages.

Answer 1

Just trying to make a code editor by allowing the loading of an html page as a text file. Assuming you have the HTML source and now you wish to get the plain text from the HTML source,the following piece of code can help you:
private String getPlainText(String htmlText)
String str=null;
JTextPane text=new JTextPane();
text.setContentType("text/html");
text.setText(htmlText);
try{
  str=text.getDocument().getText(0,text.getDocument().getLength());
}catch(BadLocationException){e.printStackTrace();}
return str;
}