utils.js

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/**
 * @fileoverview HTML processing utilities for HTML in string form.
 */

goog.provide('goog.html.utils');

goog.require('goog.string');


/**
 * Extracts text from HTML.
 * Block-level elements such as div are surrounded with whitespace,
 * but inline elements are not. Span is treated as a block level element
 * because it is often used as a container.
 * Breaking spaces are compressed and trimmed.
 *
 * @param {string} value The input HTML to have tags removed.
 * @return {string} A representation of value without tags, HTML comments, or
 *     other non-text content.
 */
goog.html.utils.stripHtmlTags = function(value) {
  // TODO(user): Make a version that extracts text attributes such as alt.
  return goog.string.unescapeEntities(goog.string.trim(value.replace(
      goog.html.utils.HTML_TAG_REGEX_, function(fullMatch, tagName) {
        return goog.html.utils.INLINE_HTML_TAG_REGEX_.test(tagName) ? '' : ' ';
      }).
      replace(/[\t\n ]+/g, ' ')));
};


/**
 * Matches all tags that do not require extra space.
 *
 * @const
 * @private {RegExp}
 */
goog.html.utils.INLINE_HTML_TAG_REGEX_ =
    /^(?:abbr|acronym|address|b|em|i|small|strong|su[bp]|u)$/i;


/**
 * Matches all tags, HTML comments, and DOCTYPEs in tag soup HTML.
 * By removing these, and replacing any '<' or '>' characters with
 * entities we guarantee that the result can be embedded into
 * an attribute without introducing a tag boundary.
 *
 * @private {RegExp}
 * @const
 */
goog.html.utils.HTML_TAG_REGEX_ = /<[!\/]?([a-z0-9]+)([\/ ][^>]*)?>/gi;