Render or convert Html to 'formatted' Text (.NET)
Question
I'm importing some data from another test/bug tracking tool into tfs, and I would like to convert it's description, which is in simple HTML, so a plain string, where the 'layout' of the HTML is preserved.
For example:
<body>
<ol>
<li>Log on with user Acme & Co.</li>
<li>Navigate to the details tab</li>
<li>Check the official name</li>
</ol>
<br>
<br>
Expected Result:<br>
official name is filled in<br>
<br>
Actual Result:<br>
The &-sign is not shown correctly<br>
See attachement.
</body>
Would become plain text with newlines inserted and HTML-entities translated like:
1. Log on with user Acme & Co. 2. Navigate to the details tab 3. Check the official name Expected Result: official name is filled in Actual Result: The &-sign is not shown correctly See attachment
I can currently replace some tags with newlines using a regex and strip the rest, but replacing the HTML-entities and stuff like <ol> and <ul> seemed like I'm re-inventing something (browser?). So I was wondering if someone has done this before me. I can't find it using Google.
2 answers
solution1
5 2008-12-10 16:08:13
Rather than regex, you could try loading it into the HTML agility pack ? If it was xhtml, then an xslt transformation might be a good option.
solution2
0 ACCPTED 2010-01-20 12:01:02
In the end, once I got more comfortable with TFS, I customized the work item type to include a new HTML Field, and just copied the contents into that field.
This solution was so much better, because we could now see the intended formatting of the field.
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