Strip html tags from string & convert ampelsand charachters

hello, i'm converting html into xml, and i need to convert html code & content into xml content, withouth the html tags ...
so, for example, I strip this out of an html file:
<A NAME="b_betreft"></A>STUDIEOPDRACHT "UITBREIDING VIPA NAAR MEERDERE SUBSECTOREN" HERVERDELING VASTLEGGINGS- EN VEREFFENINGSKREDIETEN VAN HET VIPA VOOR HET JAAR 1999 ONTWERPBESLUIT VAN DE VLAAMSE REGERING TOT HERVERDELING VAN BASISALLOCATIES VAN DE BEGROTING VAN HET VLAAMS INFRASTRUCTUURFONDS VOOR PERSOONSGEBONDEN AANGELEGENHEDEN VOOR HET BEGROTINGSJAAR 1999<A NAME="e_betreft">
and i want to get rid of the "<A NAME="b_betreft"></A>" & "<A NAME="e_betreft">", are there classes that can do this ???
probably there are, i know in php there are ..., how about java ???
also i'll need to correct stuff like:
Financiële => Financi�le
Comit&eacute=>Comit�
you see, then, i'm done, cool ...
thanks dudessssss

hello, i'm converting html into xml, and i need to
convert html code & content into xml content,
withouth the html tags ...Why didn't you continue to post in your other thread?
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=777660
It's not nice to create multiple threads with the same question.
Kaj

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it sounded prettty easy..
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Would you please to give me a simple example ?
Best regards,
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Hi Nr
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Running Oracle 9.2.0.8 on AIX...
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I have read the following solution from Tom Kyte's site:
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2 (query_id number,
3 document clob)
4 /
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2 (id int primary key,
3 theblob blob,
4 theclob clob)
5 /
Table created.
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2 on demo (theblob)
3 indextype is ctxsys.context
4 /
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SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> create index demo_clob_idx
2 on demo (theclob)
3 indextype is ctxsys.context
4 /
Index created.
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2 (1,
3 utl_raw.cast_to_raw (
4 '<html>
5 <body>
6 
7 This is a test of
8 ctx_doc.filter 
9 and plaintext filtering.
10 
11 </body>
12 </html>'),
13 '<html>
14 <body>
15 
16 This is a test of
17 ctx_doc.filter 
18 and plaintext filtering.
19 
20 </body>
21 </html>')
22 /
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<html>
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 and plaintext filtering.
 
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 and plaintext filtering.
 
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2 /
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DOCUMENT
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This is a test of ctx_doc.filter and plaintext filtering.
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SCOTT@orcl_11gR2>

How can I eliminate HTML tags from Oracle Text Snippet?

I perform a search on many tables and on many columns of those tables.
Some of those columns are VARCHAR2 and some CLOB.
Also, some of the searchable data are HTML and some are plain text.
My problem is that ctx_doc.snippet fetches the HTML tags.
For example I get this, as a snippet result in one of my searches: Qual Germany n1 Test Qual Germany n1
I want the result to be fetched without the HTML tags.
In my index configuration I have used NULL FILTER and HTML_SECTION_GROUP.With that configuration I managed to eliminate the HTML tags but not in all cases!
For example:
I search table CONTENTS columns TITLE(VARCHAR2) and MAIN_TEXT(CLOB)
I created the following procedure that concatenates the two columns:
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IS
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dbms_lob.copy( p_lob, c1.data,
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BEGIN
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Edited by: user13312701 on 07-Sep-2010 08:51

Doing various tests I found out that the problem is when I need to search in multiple columns of a table.
That is when I create a user_datastore that uses a procedure that concatenates the columns.
And especially when the data with the html tags is in a VARCHAR2 column.
e.g
--create the table*
CREATE TABLE CONTENT_TRANS (content_trans_id NUMBER,
main_text CLOB,
title vARCHAR2(2000),
oracle_text_column VARCHAR2(1));
alter table "CONTENT_TRANS" add constraint CONTENT_PK primary key("CONTENT_TRANS_ID") ;
--Insert dummy data*
Insert into CONTENT_TRANS
(CONTENT_TRANS_ID,MAIN_TEXT,TITLE)
values
(1,'lorem','lorem qualification 2.1 ');
Insert into CONTENT_TRANS
(CONTENT_TRANS_ID,MAIN_TEXT,TITLE)
values
(2,'lorem','lorem qualification 2.1 ');
--CREATE THE procedure that concatenates main_text(CLOB) and title(VARCHAR2)*
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE CONTENT_TRANS_PROC( p_id in rowid, p_lob IN OUT clob)
IS
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FOR c1 IN (SELECT main_text||' '||title data FROM content_trans WHERE ROWID = p_id)
LOOP
dbms_lob.copy( p_lob, c1.data,
dbms_lob.getlength( c1.data ));
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END;
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BEGIN
ctx_ddl.create_preference( 'content_trans_datastore', 'user_datastore' );
ctx_ddl.set_attribute( 'content_trans_datastore', 'procedure', 'CONTENT_TRANS_PROC' );
END;
--Create the index*
CREATE INDEX content_trans_ot_idx ON content_trans(ORACLE_TEXT_COLUMN)
INDEXTYPE IS ctxsys.CONTEXT PARAMETERS ('datastore content_trans_datastore SYNC(ON COMMIT) filter ctxsys.null_filter section group ctxsys.html_section_group');
exec ctx_doc.set_key_type('PRIMARY_KEY');
--Perform the query
SELECT SCORE(1),ct.content_trans_id, ctx_doc.snippet('content_trans_ot_idx', ct.content_trans_id, 'lorem') as snippet
from content_trans ct
where contains(ct.ORACLE_TEXT_COLUMN, 'lorem', 1) > 1;
Results WITH NOT WANTED HTML TAGS:
6 1 lorem lorem qualification 2.1
6 2 lorem lorem qualification 2.1
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