HTML to XML Conversion Sample #4 - HTML Text Formatting Tags

This is the 4th of several examples describing the details of how the Chilkat HTML-to-XML library converts HTML into well-formed XML.

By default, HTML text formatting tags (b, font, i, u, br, center, em, strong, big, tt, s, small, strike, sub, and sup) are dropped during the conversion. A method exists, UndropTextFormattingTags, which can be called to prevent the tags from being dropped.

Here is an example with and without formatting tags dropped.

<html><body>This <b>is</b> a <i>test</i></body></html>

The XML output with text formatting tags dropped is shown below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<root>
    <html>
        <body>
            <text>This  is a  test</text>
        </body>
    </html>
</root>

The XML output without text formatting tags dropped is shown below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<root>
    <html>
        <body>
            <text>This </text>
            <b>
                <text>is</text>
            </b>
            <text>a </text>
            <i>
                <text>test</text>
            </i>
        </body>
    </html>
</root>

(The Chilkat HTML-to-XML API is offered across many programming languages: Ruby, Perl, Python, Java, C#, VB.NET, etc.)

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