Tag Strippers

Another important utility that you’llwant to have is an HTML tag stripper. Utilities
of this type let you take an HTML or related Web document and strip all the code
out of it, leaving you with just the text.
In some cases, commercial Web design software contains such utilities. Examples
include Macintosh BBEdit (mentioned in the previous “Code Editor’’
section), Homesite, and ColdFusion Studio. In the case of Dreamweaver for
both Macintosh and Windows, you can add an extension such as Tag Stripper,
(www.massimocorner.com/dw/commands/tag_stripper.mxp), which will do
the trick for you. Check your favorite editor for this feature.
Even if you have features of this nature within your main software, you still might
want to have a lightweight, fast, standalone stripper available. What’s more, tag
strippers tend to offer more advanced features anyway, such as maintaining logical
formatting of text, converting tables into tab-delimited format, and changing
HTML entities to proper text characters.