I was planning on editing the text blob before it's saved to the database.
So a blob like: "This is a big blob of text <code>This is the code part</code> This is another line" would be converted to: "This is a big blob of text <code>This is the code part</code> This is another line" And then called back as <%= @article.body %> in the view. I thought that was a simple option. Would hpricot be appropriate here? I should also add that I plan on having a safe-list of tags, so any potentially harmful tags like <script> would be removed Does that clarify at all? Thanks On Apr 29, 7:14 pm, Tim <[email protected]> wrote: > You don't want to fall into the rat hole of parsing HTML with > regexes. You need a parsing library like hpricot or similar. > > http://wiki.github.com/why/hpricot > > good luck! > Tim > > On Apr 29, 11:09 am, Gavin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all > > > I'm having a bit of trouble trying to acheive something, maybe someone > > can help? > > > I have a model Article, which has an attribute 'body' > > > The body is a text column in which people can add text and HTML. > > > I'd like to edit certain properties of some of the HTML tags, for > > example, converting all spaces inside <code> </code> tags to > > > I presume using a reg expression is the best way to achieve this, I'm > > just not sure of how to word an expression to scan for only characters > > within the html tags. > > > any ideas? > > > Ta > > > Gavin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
